Here are some more pictures of various places in Vienna. Be warned that this is another long posting.
A traditional Viennese hof or court.
Rachel Whiteread's Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial.
Schönbrunn Palace.
This is the house that positivist-then-anti-positivist philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein designed for his sister in the 1920s. He forced the contractors to build within a few millimetres' tolerance, and forbade his sister from installing window curtains (he instead provided steel "blinds" that dropped into the basement). I'd say the house is from his positivist period.
... and not far from the Wittgenstein House is Hundertwasser's decidedly non-positivist housing project, warped floors and all.
Inside the Karlskirche by Fischer von Erlach.
The beautiful Belvedere, a pleasure palace and garden from the 18th century. It is also a museum and has a nearby botanical garden, neither of which I saw; some of many good reasons to one day return to Vienna.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum by Gottfried Semper et al. The lobby is pretty rich and spatially fascinating.
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