The Perfect Hangover [002]

The Museum Liauning is buried in the Austrian landscape and only emerges to thrust thirty metres over a road.

Industrialist and art collector herbert W. Liaunig commissioned this build from architects Querkraft to house his personal collection of post-war Austrian art.

Like the house in Portugal, I am loving these buildings that, although severe in line, are buried in the landscape and then use a dramatic cantilever to announce their presence and stun visitors with cinematic views.

The idea of building long and low, hidden within and using the landscape, feels a lot more exciting and contemporary than the tired thirst for tall and obtrusive.


Although, in this building, the framed wide-screen views of the mountain threatens to outdo the art

Photographs © Lisa Rasti / Museum Liauning