Nordbahnhof Site: Chances and Risks

Welcome address: Dietmar Steiner, Director Az W

Introduction to planning:
Lina Streeruwitz and Bernd Vlay, STUDIOVLAY

Panel discussion with:

Henri Bava, agence ter
Christoph Chorherr, member of the Vienna regional assembly and town councillor, Die Grünen
Gerhard Kubik, member of the jury and planning spokesperson, SPÖ
Michael Pech, managing board member of the ÖSW and member of the Land Advisory Board
Lina Streeruwitz and Bernd Vlay, STUDIOVLAY
Moderated by: Dietmar Steiner, Director Az W

In 2012 the project “Freie Mitte – Vielseitiger Rand” by STUDIOVLAY (Bernd Vlay/Lina Streeruwitz) won the urban planning ideas competition for the north-western part of the Nordbahnhof (Northern Train Station) site. The project differs from the part of this development area that has already been built upon as it breaks up the block grid envisaged previously. Instead of this, the development density will be increased along the edges of the new area, creating room for an open space of provocative dimensions at the centre. Accompanied by an intensive participative process, the “Urban Nordbahnhof Planning Guidelines” were developed out of this concept— an important foundation for the built implementation. A discussion organised by the Az W is devoted to the joys and troubles, the hurdles and heroes of precisely this implementation in built form.