Looking across the Neue Donau to the 'DonauCity' residences and technical businesses, and in the background part of the UN's Vienna International Centre is still visible. And of course the Danube Tower in the background. All these building are built on what was flood plain for the Danube and, after the 2nd World War, the main rubble disposal site for Vienna. The first complex built there, the VIC with its 28 floors, is now dwarfed by the DC Tower with over 60 floors.
connecting Vienna's 22nd district across the Danube with the main city. The bridge holds the U1 subway/metro line. The 'Hochhaus Neue Donau' behind the bridge has 33 floors, and was finished in 2002.
This bookstore, in the pedestrian Kohlmarkt street in the center of Vienna, is one of the few stores still there since my student days [n.b. the rest are upscale, like Tiffany, Burberry, Dior, etc]. The portal was designed in 1912 by Adolf Loos, using Freudian theories that say that the recessed entry and the indirect lighting cause a subconscious urge to enter the store. Works for me (or any other book store, for that matter).
