FESTIVALZENTRALE UND FOKUSBEZIRK 2024
The annually changing Festival Headquarters sees itself as the central point of contact for the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, as a meeting point and place for visitors, as a gateway to the festival, but also as a framework for selected content, events, exhibitions and installations. In 2024, the festival headquarters will be located in the neighbourhood development Village im Dritten - and thus in the middle of this year's focus district Landstraße.
Vienna's 3rd district dates back to the first expansion of the city in 1850 and is one of the inner districts. Landstraße is the only district in the extended city centre that does not have its outer boundary at the Gürtel, but further away from it. Landmarks such as the Hochstrahlbrunnen, Belvedere Palace, the Hundertwasserhaus and the Arsenal, as well as numerous embassies, palaces and cultural institutions ranging from concert halls to arenas are located in the district, which is also characterised by commercial, industrial and residential zones.
Instead of a classic interim use - i.e. after the actual use of a property - the festival headquarters of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2024 will move into a new building. This year, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK will find space for this new utilisation mode and its multidisciplinary presentation in the DOCKS of ARE Austrian Real Estate. The building stretches along the Landstraßer Gürtel (between Landstraßer Hauptstraße and Adolf-Blamauer-Gasse) and will offer 9,000 square metres of space for loft offices and businesses with exhibition areas as well as local shops and restaurants.
The DOCKS are part of the Village im Dritten urban quarter developed by ARE. Around 2,000 flats, offices and educational facilities are also being built on the eleven-hectare site around a large park. The neighbourhood will be supplied with a climate-friendly energy system consisting of geothermal probes, photovoltaic systems and district heating. In addition to the carefully selected exhibitions, installations and events at the festival headquarters, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK programme will focus on the development of the neighbourhood and the characteristics of the entire district.
