Festivalzententrale 2025

The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is pleased to announce this year’s Festival Headquarters: the impressive workshop premises and showrooms of a former car dealership at Wiedner Hauptstraße 52 in Vienna’s 4th district. As the main venue for one of the most significant curated design events in Europe, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK’s Festival Headquarters takes on great importance. In addition to the carefully selected exhibitions, installations, and events that can be experienced here from September 26 to October 5, 2025, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK with this architecturally remarkable interim use once again creates the opportunity to take a closer look at the special features of Vienna’s urban history and development – with free admission, a lot of personality, and a high quality of stay.

Stopover at a former car dealership

Where one could once take a break in the »Zur grünen Weintraube« restaurant garden on the southern access road into the city, a workshop planned by the architects Löschner & Helmer was built in the 1950s. Nobody less than poet and architecture critic Friedrich Achleitner praised »the light and bold construction of the bright hall« and recognized in it »something of the future-oriented zeitgeist of the late 1950s.« Special thanks go to JP Immobilien for providing the location.

The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2025 takes place from September 26 to October 5. As always, admission is mostly free!