ABB frozen music video series: innocad design the rock, a radisson red hotel in vienna

ABB’s frozen music video series, episode #17

Frozen Music is a video series from ABB about innovative architecture from around the world, told from many perspectives. A wide variety of projects are featured, exploring ideas and courageous approaches of the architects behind the designs. The series gives short, sharp, and attractive insights of today´s building design.

Episode #17 explores The ROCK in Vienna, Austria, a Radisson RED hotel designed by INNOCAD, which, amidst many municipal constraints, sprung unique architectural solutions.

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The 17th episode from ABB explores The ROCK in Vienna, Austria, a Radisson RED hotel designed by INNOCAD

All images courtesy of ABB / all images © Paul Ott

The rock designed by INNOCAD

The ROCK, a Radisson RED hotel designed by INNOCAD, is located in Vienna’s vibrant district of Leopoldstadt, near the canal that branches off the river Danube. The building’s design captures the energy of its setting. Merging the public and private, the hotel welcomes guests to a courtyard with a 25-meter mural that echoes the street art outside. An event space, restaurant, gym and public rooftop bar with a partly cantilevered terrace, completes the amenities.

The hotel welcomes guests to a courtyard with a 25-meter mural that echoes the street art outside

Glazed in a pristine white finish, the hotel’s façade prompts curiosity with an appearance with a particular edge. This rock-like formation consists of a uniform grid of windows with precise folds reminiscent of a solid stone. Playing on the hotel’s contradictions, the window frames are softened in a golden shade that contrasts with the exterior’s white body.

A public roof bar with a partly cantilevered terrace sits atop the hotel

The interior expresses a modern swing in style. Harmonious, happy colors adorn the clean, textured surfaces. However, the outside is just as important to the interior. The windowsills form benches in 179 well-designed guestrooms, offering visitors views to look out across the city and canal. Light floods through the glass, framing surprising axes of vision of the surroundings, and adhering to strict municipal limits in terms of height and light – constraints that led to creative solutions.

Light floods through the glass windows to frame surprising axes of vision of the city and canal

ABB technology completes the architecture

ABB’s technological solutions like ABB i-bus KNX run smoothly and discreetly in the background at The ROCK, invisibly taking care of temperature, light-scenes, and security. Other products, like the soft-touch, black matt switching range future® linear, ensures a modern, elegant appearance and easy control of functions for guests.

ABB Technologies are designed to deliver energy efficiency, durability, and high-end comfort to everyone.

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The windowsills form benches in all 179 well-designed guestrooms to offering visitors views of the surroundings