Architecture firm Austria The Viennese architecture and design firm Coop Himmelb(l)au was founded in 1968 by Wolf D.Prix and Helmut Swiczinsky. The name Coop Himmelb(l)au (Heavenly Blue Cooperative or Heavenly Building Cooperative) is a play on words that reflects the linguistic and philosophical nature of their work best expressed through the postwar international deconstructivist movement. The roots of Coop Himmelb(l)au’s work are markedly futuristic and organic. Wellknown early projects include the Reiss Bar (1977) and the club café Roter Engel (1981), with its fractured and fissured facade in the First District of Vienna, as well as the inventive Humanic shoe store branches (1979–81) in Vienna and in Mistelbach. The Kon’yo Arts and Crafts Shop in Tokyo (1986) and the two Funderwerk factory-glazedentry additions in St. Veit/Glan (1988) are also significant statements of their design thinking. The Falkestrasse rooftop addition of 1988 in Vienna, with its winglike winter garden roof a...