THE PRIZE BAG: DOUBLE LIFES OF ARCHITECTURE
AUT / DE
German
PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT at the Regional Hospital Southwest Styria, site Deutschlandsberg
"THE PRIZE BAG: DOUBLE LIFES OF ARCHITECTURE"
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A+ LKH Feldbach
CONVERSION, REDEVELOPMENT AND EXTENSION OF A NEUROLOGICAL OUTPATIENT CLINIC IN STYRIA
competition: 1st prize
- Exterior Architecture
- Interior Architecture
- Interior Design
- Lighting Design
hospital / story extension / context of existing and new building / welcoming, natural light / finely woven
LKH Feldback’s extension consists of adding another level to its south building. The additional story includes a variety of examination and treatment rooms, which could also be transformed during a second conversion phase into an interdisciplinary special class station. This was a unique challenge for the INNOCAD team and required thoughtful planning and flexibility in the concept. The aim and the outcome is a brighter, hotel-like atmosphere, achieved through a central communication area and waiting zone, awash with natural light through a skylight. The generously appointed foyer and reception area is surrounded by various seating niches and provides intimacy and a relaxing atmosphere with its soothing central copper-colored room furniture. All ambulance, therapy and service offices are connected and radiate through this central area. These rooms also offer relaxing natural light by room-height glazing that opens to a generous outside terrace which acts like a park. In addition to its use as sun protection, an expanded metal façade is “woven” together with the new plant pots whose design follows the previous shape of the existing building and connects to the new extension. The façade unifies the entire building by simultaneously interlacing the old construction with the new extension.
- project name: A+ LKH Feldbach
- function: Healthcare, Best of
- location: Feldbach, AUSTRIA
- client:
- floor space: 728 m²
- number of floors: 1
- construction start: 10 / 2009
- completion: 09 / 2010
- construction cost: EUR 2.7 million net
- project team:
Oliver Kupfner
Bernd Steinhuber, Dominik Gladik, Jörg Kindermann, Martin Lesjak
- photographer: Paul Ott
PUBLICATION – THE PRIZE BAG: DOUBLE LIFES OF ARCHITECTURE
Following the exhibition "The Prize Bag: Double Lives of Architecture" at the HDA Graz as part of the 2025 Styrian State Architecture Prize, the accompanying publication has been released. We are pleased to be featured with our project for the PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT at the Regional Hospital Southwest Styria, site Deutschlandsberg, developed for our client, KAGes – Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H.
Curated by Sevince Bayrak and Oral Göktaş of SO? architecture, the exhibition took a critical look at architecture awards and the narratives they create. By uncovering the collaborative, imperfect, and often unseen realities behind shortlisted projects, "The Prize Bag" reveals architecture's "double life" – the tension between representation and use, polished images and lived experience – and repositions architectural prizes as a platform for discussion rather than mere evaluation. We would like to thank the curatorial team and the HDA Graz for a successful exhibition and extend our heartfelt congratulations to all the honored and winners.
PUBLICATION ON NEXTROOM
AUT
German
PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT AT REGIONAL HOSPITAL LKH SÜDWESTSTEIERMARK, SITE DEUTSCHLANDSBERG
"Adaptierung, Neubau und Sanierung, Graz, Österreich"
PROJECT PUBLICATION ON NEXTROOM
We are pleased that our PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT of the Regional Hospital Südweststeiermark, site Deutschlandsberg, has been included in the nextroom collection.
Nextroom is a non-profit association dedicated to communicating architecture. Its focus lies on documenting realized projects of high architectural quality and building a long-term archive through the platform nextroom.at. The collection primarily covers Austria and neighboring countries.
The feature highlights the hospital’s extension with a dedicated palliative care unit and explores how architecture can contribute to quality of life and provide meaningful support for patients and their families.
PUBLICATION
ORCA MEDIA
ARCHITEKTUR PLANEN BAUEN WIRTSCHAFT
WIEN NIEDERÖSTERREICH BURGENLAND
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AUT
German
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PUBLICATION ON ARCHITIZER
NYC
English
PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT AT REGIONAL HOSPITAL LKH SÜDWESTSTEIERMARK, SITE DEUTSCHLANDSBERG
"Palliative care unit at Regional Hospital LKH Südweststeiermark, Site Deutschlandsberg"
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Issue 01 / 2023
DE
German
THE ROCK – RADISSON RED VIENNA
“Monolith in Interaktion”
CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE
Masterpieces around the World
Braun Publishing
THE ROCK – RADISSON RED VIENNA
CH, 2022
English
447 pages
Hardcover, 24 x 33 cm
ISBN: 978-3-03768-284-5
196+ FORUM VIENNA
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Lecture
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196+ FORUM X RADISSON RED VIENNA
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The future is here: hotels
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THE PLAN AWARD 2022
FINALIST: MAM COMPETENCE CENTER
FINALIST: THE ROCK - RADISSON RED VIENNA
EUROPEAN PROPERTY AWARDS 2022-2023
WIINNER: THE ROCK RADISSON RED VIENNA
Hotel Architecture for Austria
ABB FROZEN MUSIC EPISODE
At our new hotel building, THE ROCK - Radisson RED Vienna, we implemented ABB products for controlling and adjusting lighting, sun shading and temperature in the rooms as well as the public areas. The Swedish-Swiss company collaborated with us on the #17 episode of Frozen Music, a video series that presents unique building projects and the architects behind them to their global community. Katrin Förster thematized the design approach in an interview with CEO Martin Lesjak and project lead Oliver Kupfner, as well as relevant topics such as added social values.
HOTELBAU
Issue 03 / 2022
DE
German
THE ROCK – RADISSON RED VIENNA
"Auf dem Präsentierteller"
TURN ON FESTIVAL
Oliver Kupfner
Keynote
THE ROCK – das neue Radisson RED Vienna Hotel
Vienna, AUT
ARCHITECTUR AKTUELL
Special Issue “Architects”
Issue 01 / 2022
AUT
German
THE ROCK - RADISSON RED VIENNA
"INNOCAD architecture"
MUTBOARD & VOGEL
Issue 05 / 2020
AUT
German
INNOCAD
"Steirerteams are very good"
