JURY´s DECISION
2nd Otto Wagner Urban Architecture Award

The judging session and the selection of the winner took place on October 16, 1998 under the chairmanship of Sir Norman Foster. The criterion for the 2nd Otto Wagner prize for Urban Planning was the offensive and fundamentally new discussion on urban development: the problem of living and working and the feasibility of immaterial communication; the problem of town and the surrounding countryside with the intention of concentration and the need for space and landscape. The winners had to be selected out of the total 71 entries submitted.

AWARD
Homeworkers
Living and working at the Donaufelder Straße
BUS ARCHITEKTUR
Laura Spinadel, Claudio Blazica, Rainer Lalics
Assistants and experts:Mladen Jadric, M. El Khafif, K. Nabielek, C. Nuhsbaumer, G. Müller,
Traffic engineering: Werner Rosinak
Structural engineer: Pachler
Engineering of technical equipment: Vienna ÖKO System
Construction-related physics: Pfeiler

‘Homeworkers’ is a pilot project for increasingly spreading future ways of life trying to combine living and working within a dense, multifunctional city.
‘Homeworkers’ as well as the honorable mention project
‘Die konkrete Utopie-Strukturelemente der Stadt’ by Mascha and Seethaler have already been presented at the Architekturzentrum Wien within the ‘Milleniumworkshop’ initiated and conceived by Rüdiger Lainer in 1996.
Especially impressive among the large number of high quality entries was ‘Homeworkers’ translating theory into realisable practice. The fundamental aspect of this entry, transcending the conception was a more differentiated dealing with utilisation, function and density.