Austrian Postal Savings Bank [SEP] architect
Austrian Postal Savings Bank
The Austrian Postal Savings Bank building (German language: "Österreichische Postsparkasse") is a famous building in Vienna, designed and built by the architect Otto Wagner. The building is regarded as an important work of Vienna Secession, branch of Art Nouveau.
It was constructed between 1904 and 1906 using then completely new reinforced concrete, and was opened on 17 December 1906. Extension was added between 1910 to 1912.
The building houses the headquarters of the "Österreichische Postsparkasse" (P.S.K.) bank
to a much more geometric and simplified style, without ornament, in the Austrian Postal Savings Bank (1904–1906). Wagner declared his intention to express the function of the building in its exterior. The reinforced concrete exterior was covered with plaques of marble attached with bolts of polished aluminum. The interior was purely functional and spare, a large open space of steel, glass and concrete where the only decoration was the structure itself.
The Viennese architect Adolf Loos also began removing any ornament from his buildings. His Steiner House,