Raiffeisen Bank
The Raiffeisen Bank or the Looshaus building was the result of an architectural competition arranged by Leopold Goldman and Emanuel Aufricht. The building would sit directly across from the Imperial Palace home to Franz Josef who was the Emperor of Austria at the time. The imperial house, also known as the Hofburg was a building of baroque style which has highly ornamental. The Looshaus building completely ignored the history of the surrounding area. It was an early modern building that rejected the ornamental style of the Hofburg across the city square. The building was split into two distinctive halves in which one housed the public, while the other housed the private. The bottom half housed the public program and this half would amplify ornament. The upper half of the building would house the private program but this half was plain, there was no ornament in the residential half. Instead the top half of the building focuses on juxtaposing solid and void. This distinct separation ...