25hours Hotel Vienna

25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner

25HOURS HOTEL VIENNA

BWM Architekten

ARCHITECTS
BWM Architekten

CONSTRUCTION PHYSICS
Raab-Engeneering GmbH

BUILDING SERVICES
PME Technisches Büro

INTERIOR DESIGN
dreimeta

CLIENT
LF 1-3 Betriebs GmbH

PROJECT CONTROLLING
c-performance Baumanagement

STATICS
Aste Weissteiner ZT GmbH

GENERAL PLANNING
BWM Architekten

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rupert Steiner

AREA
12900.0 sqm

YEAR
2013

LOCATION
Vienna, Austria

CATEGORY
Hotels

25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner
25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner

Text description provided by architect.

A hotel is a hotel is a hotel just for tourists. Wrong! The new 25hours Hotel, located near Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, is by no means just a pretentious structure offering accommodation for a well-heeled foreign clientele.

25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner
25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner

Since opening its doors in early 2013, this centrally located hotel has become a popular spot for all – especially for the locals, who appreciate the pizzeria, the Viennese “Schanigarten” with a special burger grill, and a cool rooftop café with a terrace.

The Viennese architecture firm BWM Architekten converted the former student residence in Vienna’s 7th district into a laid-back hotel in several stages for 25hours Hotel Company.

25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner
25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner

Although this six-floor building with its uncompromising functionalist design was constructed as a student residence in 1969, it was initially used as office space by UNIDO until the organization was able to move into the newly built UNO City in Vienna’s 22nd district.

In 2009 the new operational concept was born and a modern glass cube designed to rest on top of the rational building.

25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner
25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner

This roof structure, which draws upon the original building’s compact architecture and modifies it for today’s sensibilities, was opened in 2011.

It provides enough room, not only for 35 individually designed apartments on three floors, but also for a café-bar with a terrace and a fabulous view.

25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner
25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner
25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner

In the second construction phase the existing building was revitalized and the façade was given a dramatic anthracite-colored look.

The building is within walking distance of the popular MuseumsQuartier Wien and is – with its 219 rooms – the largest hotel of the German-owned 25hours Hotel Company to date.

The hotel’s opening marked BWM Architekten and 25hours Hotel Company’s successful completion of a sensitive urban project at a nodal point between the densely built 7th district and the historical 1st district.

25hours Hotel Vienna
25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner

And it also marks the building’s revival and new lease on life.


25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner
25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner
25hours Hotel Vienna
© Rupert Steiner


25hours Hotel Vienna
Floor Plan
25hours Hotel Vienna
Floor Plan