INSPIRATION FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR AN AESTHETIC AND MEANINGFUL LIFESTYLE
To celebrate its 20th anniversary (2023), the Portuguese winegrowers' group has created two exceptional wines: a red wine and a tawny port. These special cuvées, each blended from the best barrels of the five wineries, deserved a special presentation. The Linz-based creative agency upart won the tender. Their design for the labels and packaging of the valuable wines has now been honoured with the Austrian State Prize for ‘Smart Packaging 2024’.
The new sidewalk terrace of the Hotel Zur Wiener Staatsoper is a gentle transition between hotel and city and an invitation to discover Vienna’s city center through its culinary scene.
With a soaring wooden spiral that inscribes Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” into the sky, Austria presents a poetic synthesis of architecture, music, and sustainability at Expo 2025 in Osaka. Designed by BWM Designers & Architects in collaboration with facts and fiction, the pavilion is a vibrant invitation to co-create the future – not designed, but composed.
What makes summer at the Nesslerhof unique? Walking barefoot through sunlit meadows, breathing in the fragrance of lavender and wormwood, tasting the flavours of mountain herbs – and now also embracing a harmonious blend of Finnish comfort and Japanese serenity.
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