Haas-Haus
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Building
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in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
at the Stock-im-Eisen-Platz.
Designed by the Austrian architect Hans Hollein
Hans Hollein
Hans Hollein, is an Austrian architect and designer.Hollein achieved a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1956, then attended the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1959 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1960...
, it is a building in the postmodernist
Postmodernism
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style and was completed in 1990. The use of the Haas-Haus is divided between retail
Retail
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and a restaurant
Restaurant
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. The building is considered controversial owing to its contrast with the adjacent Stephansdom
Stephansdom
St. Stephen's Cathedral is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, OP...
cathedral.