Photograph

The Linz Café: Photographs of building interior

01/01/1980

Interior View

Three photographs of the café interior, focusing on the café alcoves and the hand painted walls with its ornaments.

Photographer:

Christopher Alexander/C.E.S., Linz, Austria

Source:

Digital

Characteristics:

Color, B&W

Content of

Project

Linz Café 1980

Linz , Austria

Commercial, Realized , Construction completed in Jul-1980

Client:

Forum Design; Österreichisches Institut für Visuelle Gestaltung - Angela Hareiter

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander

Contractor:

Construction management by the Center for Environmental Structure with local subcontractors

Project cost:

$35.000

Project stages:

Layout on the site by C.E.S. Use of full scale mock-ups Design Development drawings done after layout Direct construction management and on-site design decisions

Built as part of the international exposition "Forum Design" and designed to be "portable". Wooden building overlooking the Danube, with the first floor of the building raised to clear the ten-foot-high river embarkment. Yellow and red exterior, three stories, 2,300 ...

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Linz Café: Hand-painted walls with flowers as ornament 1980

Work of Art for Project, Hand-painted Interior

Created by:

Christopher Alexander, Pamela Alexander

Exterior walls painted yellow with some white and a touch of orange to light the orange of the canopy; hand-painted interior walls in green, apricot, yellow, red and green, with ornamental frieze and white flowers on the walls painted by ...