Wien S Dbahnhof. Bestand Und Abbruch / Vienna South Station and Its Demolition / 2007 2010 2012 Edition

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In this large-format pictorial, the artist Roman Bönsch pays homage to Vienna s former Southern Train Station (Südbahnhof) and documents its demolition. While the 4th Southern Train Station or now, to use its official nomenclature, the Vienna Main Train Station is already under construction, the station erected by the architect and OBB planner Heinrich Hrdlicka in cooperation with Rudolf Maculan and Kurt Walder from 1955 to 1961 remains an important part of the city s inner landscape, and is still present in the minds of all polyglot visitors from the south and east. The book includes crisp, detailed photographs of the station building, the tracks and their functional units, the immediate surroundings, public spaces and those not accessible to the public like workrooms and changing rooms from both the last years in operation and during the demolition. To help put them in context, the images are complemented by schematics, a historical retrospective dating back to the beginnings of the Southern and Eastern Lines Station, and an outlook on the new Main Train Station.