Article source: heri&salli

The architecture office heri&salli from Vienna developed for the city “Strasshof an der Nordbahn”, located north of Vienna, different urban developments.

If the inventors of Strasshof, could have had their way the city on the northern railway line today could be the “biggest and most beautiful city” of Lower Austria, planned on an orthogonal street grid following the US-example – unique for Austria. A garden as well as an industrial city that was to be developed in 1908 after the construction of the shunting station in the surrounding area on the Strasserfeld. Because of the political history of Austria this plan never could be realized, only the planned street grid remained and became the basis of the building structure we find nowadays in Strasshof. Today we have to accept that the conception of the city has failed.

Image Courtesy © heri&salli

• Architects: heri&salli
• Project: IMAGINATION CITY
• Location: Strasshof an der Nordbahn, Austria
• Silkscreen: Larissa Leverenz
• Technic: transfer print, silkscreen, Collage on paper
• Size: 80, 60cm
• Finished: october 2013