Museum Cafe

Super-sized coffeehouse inserted into a 19th-century neo-Renaissance building.

Vienna, Austria.

With an area of 300 square meters, MAK cafe stretched the traditional confines of the Viennese cafe. As part of the 1993 reconstruction of the Museum für angewandte Kunst (building by Heinrich von Ferstel, 1871), Peter Noever commissioned architect Hermann Czech to design a cafe in a large room in the museum below a high, coffered late-19th-century ceiling.

You can read more about Czech’s approach to the project in the slide show. The highly regarded cafe, both for its atmosphere and cuisine, was demolished in 2006 to make room for a new design by Eichinger oder Knechtl.

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