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SO/ Vienna
Vienna, Austria · Sofitel · Core Luxury
A Pritzker Prize-winning Jean Nouvel tower at Praterstraße 1 in Leopoldstadt, its trapezoidal form and monochrome tiles conceived as an abstract tribute to the steeply inclined roof and multicolour tiles of Stephansdom. Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist's large-scale LED projections run across three levels of the interior.
- 182 rooms
- Opened 2010
- Neighborhood: Leopoldstadt
- Architect: Jean Nouvel
About SO/ Vienna
- Jean Nouvel's tower opened in 2010 as Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom; Accor rebranded it SO/ Vienna in 2018.
- The trapezoidal form and monochrome tiles nod to Stephansdom's steep roof and coloured tiles; Pipilotti Rist's LED work runs across three interior levels.
- Johann Strauss II wrote The Blue Danube in an apartment on the same Praterstrasse; the 1897 Riesenrad is a 19-minute walk.
History
Jean Nouvel's tower at Praterstraße 1 opened in 2010 as Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom, a trapezoidal high-rise whose tiles remember Stephansdom. Accor folded it into SO/ in 2018. Pipilotti Rist's LED projections still run across three interior levels. Das LOFT sits on the 18th floor; the Danube Canal and Schwedenplatz are at the door, the Prater and its 1897 Riesenrad a 19-minute walk, and Strauss's Blue Danube apartment is on the same street.
The setting
SO/ Vienna rises on Praterstraße 1 in Leopoldstadt, Vienna's Second District, a Jean Nouvel-designed tower at the Schwedenplatz gateway between the historic First District and the Danube Canal. St. Stephen's Cathedral is sixteen minutes on foot and the Prater — Vienna's former imperial hunting grounds, anchored by the 1897 Riesenrad Ferris wheel — nineteen minutes' walk. The Praterstraße itself has undergone a cultural revival, lined with independent cafés, the historic Nestroyhof theater, and the Johann Strauss apartment where the Danube Waltz was composed, lending the address a distinctly local Leopoldstadt character, elevated by a Das LOFT rooftop restaurant on the 18th floor offering panoramic city views.
Restaurants and bars
- Das LOFT — Bar · Bar
- EL GAUCHO — Bar · Bar
Amenities
- Spa
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
- Rooftop bar
- Pet-friendly
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