Tourist attraction
Looshaus
Michaelerplatz 3, 1010 Wien
Stark modernist facade of bare upper storeys above green marble columns, once mocked as a house without eyebrows.
This guide to Looshaus in Vienna follows architect Adolf Loos's 1911 shop-and-apartment block for the tailors Goldman and Salatsch, built directly across Michaelerplatz from the Hofburg's entrance. It traces the uproar over its ornament-free upper floors, the newspapers that mocked it and the nickname Vienna gave it. Look up at those bare walls, and imagine an emperor's curtains drawn shut against them somewhere behind you.
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