Linzer Eye opens !

Press Information
Friday, 11 September 2009

And yet it does rotate! A platform in the Danube, in front of the new AEC, gives us new perspectives on the city in 2009.

To show its commitment to the Capital of Culture the Kammer der Architekten und Ingenieurkonsulenten für Oberösterreich und Salzburg makes the city of Linz, its inhabitants and its visitors a present. This gesture, which is not dissimilar in a way to sponsoring a park bench, is about occupying a site, redefining it and charging it with symbolic significance. The impressive urban space, whose possibilities have been only marginally exploited, will feature a floating structure, the LINZER AUGE, a rotating poetical object that will be accessible for many and disparate uses. A floating perpetuum mobile, it is sure to leave no eyes unturned. The energy needed to rotate it comes directly from the river. You step onto the platform – everything revolves round you. Linz moves past you at a sedate, steady pace, revealing new perspectives as it goes.

For additional information about this project:
Tel +43 / (0)732 / 2009-37
Fax +43 / (0)732 / 2009-43
pia.leydolt@linz09.at