Studio Salvi Weber is an architecture office with studios in Vienna and Berlin. Founded in 2009 as Schenker Salvi Weber, the office has grown through competitions and now brings together around 70 architects working on projects in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The studio’s spectrum ranges from educational and cultural buildings to office and residential projects, as well as complex transformations of existing fabric.
For Studio Salvi Weber, the new often begins with what is already there. To build in continuity means reading the qualities of the existing with precision and carrying them forward in response to contemporary needs. Old and new remain legible as distinct layers of time – held together without being made the same.
This approach is evident in Apostelhof in Vienna, where an ensemble shaped by four different periods was carefully developed further, as well as in the KinderKunstLabor in St. Pölten and the historic Ballonhalle at Vienna’s Arsenal for the Academy of Fine Arts. With Belvedere Salzburg, the studio is also realising a museum project at the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Salzburg’s Old Town; the extension to Museum Wiesbaden likewise engages with the question of how an existing cultural place can be continued.
The studio’s completed buildings have received recognition in recent years on many different levels: for architectural excellence and for the quality of collaboration, through Austria’s highest architecture awards as well as in an international context. The RIBA International Award for Excellence, nominations for the Mies van der Rohe Award, the Austrian State Prize for Architecture and the ZV Bauherr:innenpreis stand for this breadth. These achievements are the result of collective work – shaped by a studio in which around 70 architects with different experiences and perspectives work together today.
Competitions have shaped Studio Salvi Weber from the outset. For us, they are both a design tool and a productive exceptional condition: a mode of working in which conceptual clarity, constructional precision and the willingness to revise are put to the test.
Competitions
2026
Honourable Mention — Sozialpädagogisches Zentrum Salzburg (AT)
2nd Prize — Gemeinschaftsschule Pankstraße Berlin (DE)
Honourable Mention — Neubau Viktoriakarree Bonn (DE)
2025
1st Prize — Erweiterungsbau Museum Wiesbaden (DE)
1st Prize — AGES Spargelfeldstraße Vienna (AT)
2024
2nd Prize —
Generalplanung Otto Wagner Areal, Gebäudehülle (AT)
2nd Prize
— Adaption Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (AT)
2nd Prize — Wohnbau Aribonenstraße Salzburg (AT)
Honourable Mention — Haus der Jugend, Vienna (AT)
1st Prize — Ballonhalle, Zentrum Materialwissenschaften Kunst & Konservierung (AT)
2023
1st Prize
— Postblockareal Süd, Ministerium & Wohnbau Berlin-Mitte (DE)
1st Prize —
Bildungscampus Bau, Geradstetten (DE)
Honourable Mention — Neugestaltung Naschmarkt Vienna (AT)
Awards
2026
KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten, Best Architects Awards 2026
KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten, Design Educates Awards 2025 — Bronze Prize
KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten, Staatspreis für Architektur 2025 — Nominierung
KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten, Mies van der Rohe Award — Nominierung
KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten, Bau des Jahres 2024
Apostelhof Wien — gebaut 2024
KuKu23 Wien — gebaut 2024
2025
Best Architects Awards 2026
, KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten
Design Educates Awards 2025 — Bronze Prize
, KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten
Vorbildliche Bauten NÖ – Award 2025, KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten
Staatspreis für Architektur 2025 — Forschung & Entwicklung, KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten
dezeen award 2025 – shortlist (Cultural project), KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten
PULSE Award 2025 — shortlist, KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten
Mies van der Rohe Award — Nominierung, KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten
Piranesi Award — Nominierung, KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten
austria-architects — Bau des Jahres 2024
, KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten
gebaut 2024
, Apostelhof Wien
gebaut 2024, KuKu23 Wien
2024
KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten, ZV — Bauherr:innenpreis 2024 — 1. Preis
2023
Volksschule Bütze Wolfurt, Heinze ArchitekturAWARD 2023 — Nominierung
Lectures
2026
PULSE – International Festival of Architecture & Design, Prag (24.11.2025)
Eure Besten – world architects, ZAZ Bellerive, Zürich (6.11.2025)
Rotary Club – Lunch Lecture, Wien (4.11.2025)
Architect@Work „Schichten der Zeit – Transformation im architektonischen Kontext“, Graz (3.9.2025)
25. Architekturfrühling Haslach (21.5.2025)
TU Grundkurs Hochbau 1 (14.5.2025)
Turn On Architektur Festival – ORF Radio Kulturhaus (15.3.2025)
Iowa State University, Gastkritik, Rom (6.3.2025)
2025
24.11. PULSE – International Festival of Architecture & Design, Prag
6.11. Eure Besten – world architects, ZAZ Bellerive, Zürich
4.11. Rotary Club – Lunch Lecture, Wien
3.9. Architect@Work „Schichten der Zeit – Transformation im architektonischen Kontext“, Graz
21.5. 25. Architekturfrühling, Haslach
14.5. TU Grundkurs Hochbau 1, Wien
15.3. Turn On Architektur Festival – ORF Radio Kulturhaus, Wien
6.3. Iowa State University, Gastkritik, Rom
2024
KinderKunstLabor St. Pölten, Überbau Akademie (4.6.2024)
Iowa State University, Gastkritik, Rom (April 2024)
Turn On Architektur Festival – Venice Design für Neudörfler (23.2.2024)
Seminar Wohnen im Kunst- und Kulturquartier, Überbau Akademie (30.1.2024)
2022
Sprechen über Architektur, Zentralvereinigung der Architekt:innen Österreich (15.12.2022)
TU Wien, Gebäudelehre und Entwerfen: Design the design process (8.11.2022)
New Design University, RE:LEARN Symposium, St. Pölten (10.6.2022)
BFI Bildungshaus, Linz (9.6.2022)
TU Wien, Architektur und Raumplanung: Bildungslandschaften (16.3.2022)
Publications
Book, Monograph
Magazine, Medium