
81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn
About Buildings + Cities
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The Art of Residential Blocks
Vienna has a sort of decorum about how these residential blocks should present themselves they shouldn't be too showy yeah. In Vienna nothing is higher than 23 meters well that's because that's the rule in Vienna 23 plus plus an Attica storyYeah so but there yeah they're kind of uniformly like big blocky things he doesn’t he doesn't want to see them top out at 24 or 25 metres. Yes yes topping out he so he has a an exemplary uh one of these that he illustrates where they they top out at 23 meters ornothing is higher than 22-23 miles and then it goes on from there.
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