An Austrian extreme sports athletes attempt to jump out of a balloon in from an altitude of 36 kilometres has been postponed after a businessman claimed he was robbed of his idea.Daniel Hogan launched legal action against Red Bull. The American entrepreneur claims he approached the Austrian energy drink producer with the idea of breaking […]
Austrian construction top dog Strabag SE has been contracted to expand and renovate a shopping centre in Sweden.The Vienna-headquartered company announced today (Fri) it will enlarge the Täby Centrum in Stockholm from its current 50,000 square metres to an overall 80,000 square metres. Strabag added the size of the malls car park will be upped […]
Vienna-based artist Petronilla Hohenwarter is travelling to Chicago this October to take part in the art project Artists Respond Globally (ARG).The project pairs artists in Chicago with international artists from South Africa, Malaysia, Brazil, Austria, Bulgaria, France and Germany, who then work together remotely. The project finishes with an exhibition in Chicago in October 2011.ARG […]
Vienna International Airport (VIA) decision-makers are under fire after details of an Audit Office (RH) investigation into the delayed construction of a new terminal were revealed.Viennese daily Kurier reports today (Mon) that bosses at Flughafen Wien AG the firm which manages the airport failed to react instantly when first technical difficulties with submitted […]
A Chinese artist is to place a four-tonne rock on one of Austrias highest mountains.Organisers of Styrias Regionale10 festival announced today (Tues) that famed architectural designer Ai Weiweis creation will be positioned on the peak of the 2,995-metre Hoher Dachstein on 23 June.They said the rock from the Chinese province of Sichuan will be transported […]
Thousands of bees have taken up residence on the roof of Viennas State Opera as part of a new environmental project.Peoples Party (ÖVP) Environment Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich said when the “Vielfaltleben” (Diversity of Life) project was presented: “Bees are the builders of biodiversity. With this project, we want to raise awareness about these hard-working but […]
Austrian building top dog Strabag said construction of a Croatian port would be finished by 2013.The Vienna-based company has been engaged in building the new Gazenica port in the Dalmatian city of Zadar since May 2009.Firm officials said today (Thurs) it had also been assigned to lead procedures in the second stage of the project […]
OMVs Romanian subsidiary Petrom is investing 100 million Euros in wind power production, it was announced today (Thurs).Petrom said it acquired the company SC Wind Power Park SRL, which owns a fully authorised wind power generation project, in the south-eastern Romanian town of Dobrogea with a designated capacity of 45 megawatt.Petrom will built and operate […]
By Ivo ScepanovicAn Austrian architect is going to design the ski-jumping facilities on Igman mountain close to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina.Gernot Ritter presented his project in Sarajevo this week, saying his intent would be to renovate the infrastructure of the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and create a tourist attraction.The Styrian said that ski-jumping […]
New EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger called the Nabucco natural gas pipeline project “especially worthy of financial support” today (Thurs).He claimed it would significantly reduce Europes energy dependence on one supplier during presentation of the European Commissions (EC) financial assistance for 31 natural gas and 12 electricity projects.Oettinger noted that Nabucco, in which Austrian oil […]