Article: Spirit of ecstasy. (design of entrance building for an industrial park in Carinthia, Austria)

Gunther Domenig has formed the entrance building to a new industrial park in the Carinthian countryside as a gesture of welcome and hope, while creating subtle and gentle office spaces.

Gunther Domenig has never been lost for a gesture. His bank in Favoriten, a rather poor and dull suburb of Vienna, was one of the funniest, most acerbic, joyous, critical, and amazingly crafted buildings of the early '80s (AR November 1980, p263). Its plastically flowing stainless-steel spandrels appear at first to be falling off the concrete frame in a movement that seems simultaneously to imply the collapse of capitalism and, as the sheets bunch up over the entrance, the system's ...

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