2023-04-24 14:00:00
The building project on Mengerstrasse was the first project to be presented at today’s meeting of the Linz Design Advisory Board. There has been much and controversial reporting in the past about the rededication of the area where a Morgentau community garden was last located. Not least because of the agreement reached between the Breuerhof private foundation as the property owner and the city of Linz prior to the rededication.
This stipulated that in the event that half of the approximately 12,300 square meter property was rededicated, the other half would be owned by the city in order to create a public park here. And that’s how it came about, despite a lot of criticism. In the January municipal council, the rededication was decided.
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According to the plans of Kaufmann Haas & Partner ZT KG, three slightly kinked buildings with a shared underground car park are now to be erected on the part of the property that is directly adjacent to Mengerstrasse. Access will be via Mengerstrasse. A total of 50 apartments are to be found in the three-and-a-half-storey buildings, creating a “family-friendly offer”. Green spaces are planned between the buildings.
The advisory board found words of praise for the “skilfully executed project” and thus gave the green light. It is therefore released for submission. Planning councilor Dietmar Prammer (SP) sees the “high architectural and planning quality of the project” confirmed with the assessment of the design advisory board.
New office and commercial building on Landstrasse 97
The second project that was discussed in today’s session is the one that is to be built at Landstrasse 97. The house, which has been empty since Schuh Berndorfer went bankrupt at the end of 2018 and is owned by the Upper Austrian Medical Association, is to be demolished. According to the plans of the architects Kneidinger ZT GmbH, a five-storey new building with commercial and office space is to be built in its place. The project also envisages a courtyard building with two floors. A law firm is already a prospective tenant for the available premises (apart from the commercial space on the ground floor).
The project has the potential to become a very nice project, judged the design advisory board, which, however, gave the architects some guidelines. The construction project is now a case for the municipal planning visit.
Image: Architects Kneidinger ZT GmbH
The planned dark façade design, for example, provided material for discussion. Here, the advisory board members spoke out in favor of a brighter concept and against an “industrial” appearance. Another topic was the planned underground car park with seven parking spaces, which is to be connected to an existing underground car park. Here, a parking space for an earth case has to give way so that the planned tree can also grow well.
Planning City Councilor Prammer emphasized that it would be very welcome if quality construction took place in the southern area of the country road. It needs to be made more attractive here, which is also part of the new inner city concept.
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Julia Popovsky
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