The Rightness of a Simple Decision

architects Saša Bradić, Manfred Nehrer, Herbert Pohl
project Chamber of Labour, Vienna, Austria
written by Jan Tabor

 

Move it. Over here, not over there. The idea is so simple that one has to wonder how it could occur to only one applicant among the 29 participants of the architectural competition. The idea is quite obviously simple: the necessary annex should not be shifted far from the main building to the middle of the green area of the competition site, but it should lean on the courtyard side of the old U-shaped building.