Post Office Savings Bank
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 | Post Office Savings Bank |
| Designer | Otto Wagner |
| Location | Vienna, Austria |
| Date | 1904 to 1912 |
| Building Type | bank |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Early Modern |
| Street Address | Georg-Coch-Platz 2 |
| Notes | Solid-looking exterior, light interior with glazed vault. by competition, 1903. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Post_Office_Savings_Bank.html |
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"Wagner's Post Office Bank was won in competition in 1903 and erected in two stages, 1904-06 and 1910-12. The Hall roof, completed as part of the first stage in 1906, was a major innovation although only a small part of the vast project. It covered the centrally positioned public space in the trapezoidal-shaped, six-storey building. The glazed vault was suspended from cables in the original competition design and a larger area was involved, but in the final design, a secondary roof was incorporated above the curved ceiling. The floor to the Hall was also finished in glass to allow light to penetrate rooms below."
— Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. p26-7.
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Dennis Sharp, ed. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, an imprint of Watson-Guptil Publications, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. interior photo, p161.
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