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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ERSTE BANK “FUTURE LAB”
THE BANKING BRANCH OF THE FUTURE
competition: 1st prize
- Exterior Architecture
- Interior Architecture
- Space Planning
- Interior Design
- Lighting Design
Erste Bank / 1st prize competition / new banking / reinventing the banking experience / focus on communication, information and interaction / marketplace / walk of life / emotion / inspiration and creation
Future Lab is an integrated concept that both serves and epitomizes each phase in the life of a person. This holistic approach results in a variety of options for space and content that can only and exclusively be worked through using an interdisciplinary process. This project is a prototype to test new architecture and design strategies in response to New Banking with the interaction at the facility being experience-based not merely transaction-based. Future Lab is an atmospherically-charged and positive location where the people and their communication is the focus of interest. Information and interaction generate emotion and inspiration, the origins of every kind of creation and action. The space transforms into an area for the community where open creativity and activity of the employees and customers are welcomed. The resultant space is the fruitful source of an even better, more sustainable and thus more successful performance by the Erste Bank in the future.
- project name: ERSTE BANK “FUTURE LAB”
- function: Corporate, Retail
- location: Vienna, AUSTRIA
- client:
- Erste Bank
- floor space: 380 m²
- number of floors: 1
- construction start: 11 / 2012
- completion: 04 / 2013
- construction cost: EUR 660.000
- project team:
Oliver Kupfner
Dominik Gladik , Jörg Kindermann Martin Lesjak, Michael Petar
- photographer: Stefan Zauner
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 ON ARCHITIZER
NYC
English
PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT AT REGIONAL HOSPITAL LKH SÜDWESTSTEIERMARK, SITE DEUTSCHLANDSBERG
"Palliative care unit at Regional Hospital LKH Südweststeiermark, Site Deutschlandsberg"
