Residence of the Royal Norwegian Embassy
Architect: Berger+Parkkinen
Location: Vienna, Austria
Type: Embassy
Year: 2007
Photographs: Gerald Zugmann
The following description is courtesy of the architects. Located in Vienna’s elegant cottage district, the residence of the Royal Norwegian Embassy from 1923 was extended by a dining room for twenty people for embassy purposes. The Art Nouveau façade, which was lost due to numerous transformations and alienations in the post-war period, was sensitively reconstructed according to original ground and elevations in order to make the elegant original character of the house visible again.
Embassy residence with rough edges
The highly vertical structure of the new structure of the residence of the Royal Norwegian Embassy continues in the design of the villa. Here, the play of cylindrical and cubic components from 1923 is taken up by a series of offset shells.
A spiral staircase lined with mirrors leads to the garden and the dining room. The space allows a smooth transition between the house and the garden and is located behind a copper-clad steel and wooden structure along the garden. The atmosphere of the dining room is characterized by the contrast between the protective back and the garden front open to one side.
