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Black and white squares cover the building in a regular pattern. It suggests a chessboard, but also has something of the white snow-covered mountains that surround Innsbruck. What really inspired Rainer Köberl for this new building on the edge of town he did not divulge to me. But one thing is for sure: he succeeded in making a strong statement. He created a building that can hold its own in an urban architectural jumble without having to resort to great formal contortions.
We are standing on Mitterweg, a street extremely busy with both car traffic and pedestrians. A building supply store, even several large supermarkets, schools, residential buildings and commercial enterprises extend along its right and left sides. The Vier Länder Bank, known as BTV for short, wanted to have a new building for a branch built here on Mitterweg and held a competition by invitation for its design. The jury was chaired by the Viennese architect Heinz Tesar, who had built the head office for BTV, the so-called Stadtforum (completed in 2006), in Innsbruck’s historic centre.
In the course of the competition, the bank realised the property was actually too small for its needs and it did not award a prize. After being able to purchase an additional small lot adjoining the property, it invited the same participants to a second round. That provided the Innsbruck architect Rainer Köberl a good opportunity to give his design an edge. He kept the pointy cap-like shape rising up to a peak, but proposed a different material for the facade and was able to win the competition. The striking feature of this bank building is its steeply rising roof – Köberl wanted to make the building as tall as possible so it is not swamped by the surrounding urban architectural jumble. Actually, only two storeys are allowed in this location.
We are standing on Mitterweg, a street extremely busy with both car traffic and pedestrians. A building supply store, even several large supermarkets, schools, residential buildings and commercial enterprises extend along its right and left sides. The Vier Länder Bank, known as BTV for short, wanted to have a new building for a branch built here on Mitterweg and held a competition by invitation for its design. The jury was chaired by the Viennese architect Heinz Tesar, who had built the head office for BTV, the so-called Stadtforum (completed in 2006), in Innsbruck’s historic centre.
In the course of the competition, the bank realised the property was actually too small for its needs and it did not award a prize. After being able to purchase an additional small lot adjoining the property, it invited the same participants to a second round. That provided the Innsbruck architect Rainer Köberl a good opportunity to give his design an edge. He kept the pointy cap-like shape rising up to a peak, but proposed a different material for the facade and was able to win the competition. The striking feature of this bank building is its steeply rising roof – Köberl wanted to make the building as tall as possible so it is not swamped by the surrounding urban architectural jumble. Actually, only two storeys are allowed in this location.
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