Spring in Vienna: Exploration in UN city by Cindy Chen & Yuki Wang

Taking a short trip to Vienna UNO city in the afternoon when the weather is good is kind nice. UNO city is located in the Douna Insel. The architecture style here is a little different from that in Vienna city center. As Stacie and Adam said the architectures are really different from the inner stadt’s around the Stephansplatz. All the buildings here are tall and with glass wall. As soon as we arrive there, I feel I am so tiny inside of these Skyscrapers. We try to get into the Andromeda tower, probably the highest building of the UNO city, to take a overlook of the whole UNO city, but when we went into the gate, the officer there do not allow us to get in, because the building is for business not for visiting. From the road sign, we found there is a church in the UNO city. We walked around but only found a modern black architecture, which seems like a church, because it has a white cross on the wall. It is closed, so we cannot go inside to figure out whether it is a church or not.

the road sign next to the U1 Station

Tech Gate Vienna

As I went to Budapest last weekend, what I saw in Vienna along the Douna River reminder me about the architecture style in Budapest along that. It seems that buildings along the Douna River in Veinna are more modern than that in Budapest. Most sight spots in Vienna are in innerstadt and those sight spots are always close the churches. Compare to those sight spots in innerstadt, Vienna Internal Centre is way younger. UNO (United Nation Office) city and Austria Center Vienna are two important part of VIC. It was designed by an Austria Architect named Johann Stabe and it attract many firms like Bank of Austria and Tech Gate Vienna. Thousands of people worked in that area. Instead of seeing these modern architectures in Vienna along Douna River, architectures in Budapest along same river are more traditional, like the Budapest Parliament, the Chain Bridge and the Fishermen’s Bastion. Personal, tradition European architecture style is more attractive.