Architectural Passage

The Wollzeile Passage (Durchgang Wollzeile a.k.a. Figlmüller Durchgang) in Vienna, Austria: This pedestrian passageway runs through several buildings and two blocks, with numerous shops and restaurants delicately nestled underneath cozy balconies and apartments. 

The passageway is unofficially named, in part, for the Figlmüller restaurant, boasting Vienna's biggest and "most famous" schnitzel since 1905 when it started out here as a cozy little wine tavern near the centrally-located, Gothic St. Stephan's cathedral.

As one enters at Lugeck Square and continues through the passageway, by the many curious boutiques and cafés, toward St. Stephan's encountered is the eponymous Wollzeile street, offering the dilemma of whether to continue on to more passageway adventures, or to the other delights winding through this oldest district of the city left and right.

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Stephanstag

A visit inside the St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom)—in the center of the capital city of Vienna—on St. Stephen's Day (Stephanstag), an Austrian national holiday on the 26th of December. This Romanesque, Gothic cathedral was first consecrated in the year 1147, with many subsequent additions and restorations, and is situated to face the sunrise on this very day of the feast of St. Stephan. The architecture and people have come and gone through the centuries, wars and fires, changing the surrounding square, but St. Stephan's Cathedral remains as an anchor of faith and endurance.

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Perspectives

Urban perspectives and natural-growth dichotomies in the layers of a city, in the center of Vienna.

Left to right: 

         ~ Haas-Haus, architect Hans Hollein, 1990

         ~ St. Stephan's Cathedral (Stephansdom), first consecrated 1147

         ~ Haus "zur Weltkugel" and Haus "zum goldenen Becher" (with McDonald's and Money Exchange) Alexander Wielemans von Monteforte, 1897 & 1881-83, respectively.

It's all a blur...

Enjoying the atmosphere of the imperfect—photographs of situationism and mood in the oasis of Aux Gazelles in the city of Vienna.