In autumn 2024, an Allianz Wiener and nationwide architecture and cultural institutions (1) organized the discussion series “Use vacancy! As part of a press conference on April 9, 2025, the findings resulting from the event series are now presented and the online publication “Use vacancy!” presented that goes online on the same day. The online publication summarizes the knowledge of the series of discussions and expands them with new specialist articles on the subject. In the run-up to the Vienna State and municipal council election in 2025, the urgent need should be underlined to politically tackle the recording and use of vacancy in Vienna.
Vienna needs a coordinated bundle of measures to effectively record and use vacancy. The main measures include a comprehensive vacancy recording, vacancy taxes, as well as incentives for the use of vacancy in residential construction, ground floor zones and in commercial buildings. These demands were published in a claim in autumn 2024 and discussed in the event series “Vacation! Opportunities to activate vacancy in Vienna” by experts from politics, administration, advocacy, planning, project development, research and culture.
In order to give the demands for the recording and use of vacancy in Vienna more reprint, on April 9, 2025, the online publication “Use vacancy! Possibilities for activating vacancy in Vienna” are online. The online publication summarizes the most important findings of the discussion series of the same name and expands them with new specialist articles on the subject. The aim of the online publication is to create a technical basis in order to discuss the recording and use of vacancy in Vienna and to make the political topic of the Vienna Landtag and municipal council election 2025.
As part of a press conference on April 9, 2025, the online publication “vacancy! Opportunities for activating vacancies in Vienna” will be presented, findings from the series of events of the same name and a revised catalog of claims presented and an opinion of the Allianz on the Vienna Urban Development Plan 2035 (Wienplan) with reference to the topic.
Datum: 09.04.2025, 10 a.m.
Ort: IG Architecture, Gumpendorfer Straße 63b, 1060 Vienna
In addition, the discussion event “Further build in the city of the future” is pointed out, which takes place on the same day at 6 p.m. in the Vienna Architecture Center on the occasion of the Vienna election 2025. Together with representatives of all political city parties, there is a discussion there, among other things, about the recording and use of vacancy in Vienna. All information about this at: https://www.azw.at/de/termin/weiterbauen-an-der-stadt-der-zukunft/
(1) “Use vacancy! Possibilities for activating vacancy in Vienna” is a cooperation between Allianz for Substance, Architecture Center Vienna, Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Technical University of Vienna, IG Architecture, IG Kultur Vienna, Chamber of Civil Technicians for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, ÖGFA.
(2) The three -part series of discussions “Use vacancy! Possibilities for activating vacancy in Vienna” took place on October 23, 08.11. and 27.11.2024 in the ballroom of the old WU in Vienna. All information under https://www.ig-architektur.at/leerstand-nutzen.html
Press interview for online publication “Use vacancy!”
Datum: 04.04.2025, 10:00 a.m.
Art: Press and
Ort: IG architecture
Gumpendorfer Strasse 63b
1060 Wien
Austria