The article focuses on an exceptionally large project of the Austrian-Hungarian Bank's headquarters in Vienna by a prominent Viennese architect Leopold Bauer (1872-1938). It follows development of this aspiring program from 1911 to 1914 (due to the World War I only a paper design) from the winning competition project, through preliminary projects bearing witness to inspirations in the Neo-Renaissance of the Ringstrasse, to projects with a simplified architectural expression standing closer to the moderate modernism.
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