#vienna metro station

[dankomaksimovic]

ph. Danko Maksimovic - Vienna, Austria (2022)

Film: Kodak Ultramax 400

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[julialametta]

one a day 366/133

"driving" / Vienna / Austria / ©Julia Lametta

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[aliaslittlewilliam]

Metro Station, Vienna, Austria

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my family has spoken of this movie wistfully for decades. we saw it, once, perhaps, in an earlier age, and remembered it—not for its plot, passable enough, nor for its remarkable CG achievements (first completely digital protagonist), not for the hapless charm of Bill Pullman. no, we are a family of Building Appreciators. we wanted to look at that *house* again.

and now we have.

a service I have access to finally re-acquired the rights, probably seasonally, to stream the 1995 Casper movie, and I have avidly re-watched it with my mother for architectural reasons.

ye gods, the sets. the sets. I need to speak to the art director and the production design team and the set dressers like. how were the decisions made. cause I need to analyze this house. I couldn't tell if it was sets or a Location for the longest time, because they really heckin' Committed, but the consensus (and my architect uncle joined the council after some time as well) ended up at yes, it's a set, but they looked at the Gaudi apartments in Barcelona and the doors in Prague and the Vienna metro stations because we recognize those curves and proportions.

I suspect I am going to spend awhile Appreciating this thing now that I have acquired it again, but for now, just revel in the Grand Pan of Foyer Reveal.

[head-post]

Storm Boris devastates Central Europe, death toll rises

Storm Boris caused widespread destruction in Central and Eastern Europe, killing at least 15 people. The storm swept across Romania, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, southern Germany and parts of Austria, causing heavy rain, flooding and strong wind gusts.

Romania

In Galati county in eastern Romania, the hardest-hit region of the country, heavy rains caused widespread damage, affecting about 5,000 homes and leaving at least 25,000 people without electricity.

Romania’s emergency department confirmed the discovery of six bodies, including three elderly women and one man over the past two days.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis deplored the situation, saying:

“We are again facing the effects of climate change, which are increasingly present on the European continent, with dramatic consequences.”

Rescue teams rescued hundreds of people in 19 areas of the country.

Czech Republic

In the Czech Republic, heavy rains fell for three consecutive days and flooding affected mainly northern parts of the country, leaving more than 50,000 homes without power.

Authorities reported one death, but said seven people in the country were missing, The Guardian reported.

The risk of flooding remains critical for rivers such as the Odra, Opava, Branna and Novohradka, especially in Jeseníky and Pardubice, Radio Prague International reported.

Although water levels in the upper reaches of the rivers are decreasing, the flood wave continues to travel downstream, threatening lower areas such as Uhretice and Chroustovice, the station added.

Austria

Austria has also been hit hard, with 24 villages in Lower Austria declared “disaster zones” and the death toll rising to three, the country’s vice-chancellor Werner Kogler told TV X.

“We have just received the terrible news of two more fatalities in Lower Austria,” he stated, expressing his “thoughts and deepest sympathy” for the relatives, families and friends of the deceased. He also added:

“The situation in the areas affected by the #Hochwasser (flood) remains very critical,” he warned, calling on the whole country to “follow the instructions of the emergency services on site.”

On Sunday, he said a firefighter had died battling flooding in Lower Austria after authorities declared the province surrounding the capital Vienna a disaster zone.

Chancellor Karl Nehammer noted on X:

“The Austrian Armed Forces are deployed in the storm-hit regions wherever help is needed.”

Rail services in the eastern part of the country were suspended and several metro lines in Vienna were closed due to the threat of the overflowing river Wien, APA news agency reported.

Poland

One person has drowned in Poland’s Kłodzko region, bringing the country’s death toll to five, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

He said on X:

“I have ordered the Minister of Finance to prepare funds for emergency aid and flood damage removal. The Minister for European Affairs will apply for European aid.”

He said he had asked the defence minister to “deploy additional forces to the threatened areas.” The Polish prime minister also added:

“After consultations with the relevant ministers and services, I have instructed to prepare a Council of Ministers resolution on the introduction of a state of natural disaster.”

According to The Guardian, around 1,600 people have been evacuated in Klodzko.

Because of all this, Warsaw is expected to declare a state of natural disaster, although it has not done so during previous difficulties such as the COVID-19 pandemic or major floods in 1997 and 2010, Polish Radio reported.

Hungary

In Budapest, officials have raised the forecast for water levels in the Danube River to rise to 8.5 metres (27.9 feet) in the second half of this week, nearing the record high of 8.91 metres recorded in 2013, The Guardian reported.

Zoltan Kovacs, the spokesperson for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, said on X:

“Amphibious tracked vehicles are en route from Szentes to Pilismarot to support flood defense efforts. The Hungarian Defence Forces are playing a key role in the flood protection efforts, deploying various equipment. Nothing is more important than the safety of the Hungarian people.”

Slovakia

Concern has been mounting in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava, where authorities have been taking protective measures to contain the surging waters of the Danube. Police have extensively “warned the public about the danger” of walking along the river, a Bratislava Police spokesperson told CNN on Monday.

Extreme rainfall events are likely to become more frequent and intense as the planet warms, science shows.

An analysis of a 2021 heavy rainfall event in Europe, in which more than 200 people were killed, found human-caused climate change had increased the likelihood and intensity of these events in the region. The World Weather Attribution initiative — a group of scientists who study extreme weather and published the analysis — concluded “these changes will continue in a rapidly warming climate.”

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[mapsontheweb]

More than 50% of Vienna's Area is closer than 2km to a metro station

by u/DarkMatterOne

This map shows the different metro lines of Vienna and their surroundings.

500m  - Red    (16.1%)

1km   - Orange (32.4%)

1.5km - Yellow (43.7%)

2km   - Green  (52.8%)

after that every kilometer a new shade of gray. (Up to 8km since it already covers 98% of the total area)

The furthest point is around 11.3 kilometers but it is within a national park where nobody lives anyway.

The visualization has been made in Paint.net

[andmaybegayer]

the Viennese metro was totally packed at every hour even on a random Saturday, way way more than Prague or Berlin or even Paris when I visited there. I guess it was holiday season now but even with that it felt excessive, like, I have also been in Prague during holiday season and it was nowhere near that busy. Almost every train even pretty late into the night in Vienna was standing room only, if not uncomfortably tight.

Looking at the maps I'd guess that Vienna just has much better land use around U-bahn stations? Almost every station is completely surrounded by block upon block of low-rise apartments at least, whereas Prague has a ton of metro stations with really not that much going on beyond their immediate vicinity. Vienna has pretty good frequencies so it's not like they're dramatically underutilizing the line compared to other cities. This is the region around Siebenhirten.

It's kind of wild how many Prague metro stations are in these awkward boundary areas where it's half suburbs and half medium-rise apartment blocks separated by a road, because the metro station was built at the edge of some recently-incorporated village. They're all over. Hey wait what the fuck why is there just a farm next to Stodůlky. Why. How is that still there. It's pretty comparable to Siebenhirten, they're both near the end of a major line out to one end of the city.

Even at rush hour the Prague metro is rarely so packed that you're squeezing in, whereas Prague trams are often tremendously packed, which I normally attributed just to size but might also come down to much better density along tram tracks.

Prague has a lot of big green spaces throughout the city which I do like, on the periphery a lot of that is The Soviet Style megablocks but even in the city there's a lot. Vienna has plenty of parks but it doesn't compare to how hard it is not to walk into a park while you're in Prague.

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Otto Wagner Villa, 1140 vienna Austria 🇦🇹

Otto Koloman Wagner (German: [ˈɔto ˈkoːloman ˈvaːɡnɐ] (listen); 13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner. He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement. Many of his works are found in his native city of Vienna, and illustrate the rapid evolution of architecture during the period. His early works were inspired by classical architecture. By mid-1890s, he had already designed several buildings in what became known as the Vienna Secession style. Beginning in 1898, with his designs of Vienna Metro stations, his style became floral and Art Nouveau, with decoration by Koloman Moser. His later works, 1906 until his death in 1918, had geometric forms and minimal ornament, clearly expressing their function. They are considered predecessors to modern architecture.

The Second Wagner Villa (1912)

Another of his last projects was the Second Wagner Villa on Hüttelbergstrasse in Vienna. It was located near to, and in sight of, his first villa, which he had sold in 1911. It was considerably smaller than his earlier villa. The building was designed to be extremely simple and functional, with a maximum of light, and a maximum use of new materials, including reinforced concrete, asphalt, glass mosaics, and aluminum. The villa is in the form of a cube, with white plaster walls. The primary decoration elements of the exterior are bands of blue glass tile in geometric patterns. The front door is reached by a monumental stairway to the first floor. The servant's quarters were downstairs, and the main floor was occupied by a large single room, which served as a salon or dining room. For the furniture, he selected many works designed and manufactured by one of his former students, Marcel Kammerer. Wagner intended the house as the main residence of his wife after his death, but she died before him, and he sold the house in September 1916

Wagner died on April 11. 1918, shortly before the end of the First World War, in his apartment on Döblergasse in Vienna.

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Soundtrack: 2000 Elefanten by Die Wilde Jagd

[dankomaksimovic]

ph. Danko Maksimovic - Vienna, Austria (2022)

Film: Kodak Portra 800

[istandonsnowpiles]

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Captured in IR Chrome

[titoist]

TV Program 'Peščanik' [Hourglass], November 21st 2001.

Svetlana Lukić: And now you'll be hearing Mr. Bogdan Bogdanović. He's arrived in Belgrade fairly recently, taking part in the promotion of his books "Glib i Krv" [Mud and Blood] and "Ukleti Neimar" [Damned Neimar]. Mr. Bogdanović has been living in Vienna since 1993, and Belgrade welcomed him with open arms - Albeit with the exception of the somewhat faded graffiti on his apartment block, graffiti reading "here lives the Ustaša Bogdan Bogdanović" with an arrow pointing at the front entrance. What did he see while walking through Belgrade, this reader of cities, Bogdan Bogdanović?

Bogdan Bogdanović: You know the proverb, "Everything's fine when it's in Vienna." I always thought that was just some odd Serbianism, but it isn't.

We'll be living double lives, & here's what that means practically - One or two times yearly, for a month or month & a half, I spend here at the Library, & then lug it all back over there.... That would all be rather delightful & charming were I not 80 years old, but fine, we're living doubly. We ultimately stay on the Danube, I say that both in Vienna & here, and that was... especially true during those first years when I was also known to be depressed, so I wouldn't forget all that had happened, but regardless, when something just particularly rubbed me the wrong way - As those Southerners [Southern Serbians] say - some distress, not even to mention misery, I went to the Danube. And then I sat down & I said - Alright, here, look, it's the same street, we just moved a few blocks upstream, but we're still ultimately in one great European unit.

Belgrade was in those times a Yugoslavian centre, and, hell, a Cosmopolitan centre, now there's that miserable unavoidable mass, tragic people, depressed people, nervous people... A man leaned into me so he could ask me where he could find Vojislav Ilić street, and I said - You know, I stayed there for a time as a young child, and now I'm searching for it too... He reddens, curses me out - Mother of God, how could you not know, and marched bleakly on.

Ah, the first night I had arrived at the Belgrade Station last time, this summer, I was a hair's away from shellshock, because the whole station square was totally foreign, I thought I had found myself in Constantinople or some farther away place, in İzmir or wherever-the-hell, but at the end of the 19th century, not in this one. Barracks, kafanas, each one distinct from the last, then crowds, then automobiles without roads or order, zig-zagging in different ways, and tones of vintage automobiles, and a few quite luxurious...

And these Belgrader friends of mine - Well, what can I say, for god's sake, it's horrible and so on. And it is horrible, that's understood. But when we first took off uphill via Nemanjina Street, followed by collapsed buildings, what then followed then was *a* darkness, followed by *the* darkness... By the time we had reached Čubura [Neighborhood, 1km from the beginning of Nemanjina], it had already been clear that the picture was much darker than what I had wanted to envision it as at first blush.

For two days, or three, I didn't come out at all, I was in a kind of shock. Then I said to myself, hey, let's try finding our old elementary school in Đerma [Distrct of Belgrade], so I twisted & turned & meandered through countless streets to get there, I start going down that Boulevard through that trellis, which was downright unbelievable. For me it was indecipherable what it all was, all those trinkets & debris, and then immediately right across the street there was a well-stocked jewelry store, gems.

I felt quite lucky, since I had, wouldn't you know, some Native American jacket I had gotten from Ksenija's [His wife] sister, so that I was dressed pretty much like a Native, so I very likely looked to them like a foreigner & they always made sure to leave me a little bit of space I could squeeze through.

Then I decided to descend into the Metro, & that was an experience verging on the fantastical, the totally surreal. First it started with the marbled halls, the onyx, everything was clean & couldn't be cleaner, everything was absolutely empty, bizarrely lit. What was there now was just one self-checkout, some luxurious store, just like what you would find on Vienna's Ring Road, and another was a similarly visibly luxurious restaurant, but no one within sight.

It was all empty such that it couldn't be emptier. Then one more floor, & then began those escalators, those moving staircases that were spinning the entire time, absolutely zero souls going neither up nor down. It all ran so counter to anything I could imagine, to such an extent that I had to firmly grip onto that moving handrail, I was scared that I would suddenly get dizzy.

The final layer wasn't marble anymore, it was concrete, baskets, chickens & ruralites, women... Some suburban folk going from Borča to Ovča, from Ovča to Rakovica [all municipalities of Belgrade], on one or two, five, ten local trains. And their presences are palpably uncomfortable, and I ask myself how they could go through that entire pompous upper section so they could get to it all. Then, I see that they don't even get off, but that people run along the tracks, they get here by following them and then... That truly stands as a magnificent monument to Milošević's epoch and one insane period.

Later I thought something to myself, how it could be if something was built, if one day it was turned into one grandiose theatre and there they played Dante's Inferno, first circle, second circle, third circle... that would be divine.

It's interesting that I believed to the final moment - Yugoslavia's already been damned to hell and back, now - That I still believed it would manage somehow to pull itself together. Something terrible groaned out of people, but now, what's horrifying, it's horrifying that those people who've begun to satirize & satirize themselves, they were - to the day before all of this - acquaintances, friends and neighbors. And what's even more horrifying, now that what's been done has been done, now that they're here... I don't know what the number of victims is, 100 thousand, 200 thousands, maybe more dead, I hear that they in the Hague over there lounge, sing, dance like they haven't done anything.

That's very hard to explain to anyone in the West, I can't even explain it to myself. The only possible explanation is that of double depths, double people, doubleness - the archaic man and the modern man in the same man and then it explodes all at once, something archaic, something epic, the banging of some bloody decasyllable, the beginning of the slaughter, & then once again everyone returns to civilian status.

The feeling I get, I hope, is that until now I haven't been very wrong in my forecasts, except for my belief that Yugoslavia would remain, I hope that evil has worn itself out, you know, so I don't believe that anything of that time could repeat itself. What comes now... apart from the evils of war, there exist many others, other worries & crises, right down to poverty & confusion & so on, but fine. It will all nonetheless, nonetheless change.

[i-think-pictures]

[cinevoyageuses]

🎥 "Welcome to Vienna Benji."

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015)

🎬 The filming location: this week we take you to the Schottenring metro station on the U4 line where Benji gets off the metro train and receives a pair of glasses from a courier sent by Ethan.

🎞️ Each photo has its pain. Here ? The streetlights! 😂 What next? Works and escalators just behind. Doing scene framing is an adventure with each photo 😂

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🎥 "Bienvenue à Vienne Benji."

Mission Impossible : Rogue Nation (2015)

🎬 Le lieu de tournage : cette semaine on vous emmène à la station de métro Schottenring sur la ligne U4 où Benji sort de la rame de métro et reçoit une paire de lunettes de la part d'un coursier envoyé par Ethan.

🎞️ A chaque photo sa peine. Ici ? Les lampadaires ! 😂 Et ensuite ? Les travaux et les escalators juste derrière. Faire des scene framing c'est une aventure à chaque photo 😂