The Austrian Postal Savings Bank building (German language: Österreichische Postsparkasse) is a famous modernist building in Vienna, designed and built by the architect Otto Wagner. The building is regarded as an important early work of modern architecture, representing Wagner's first move away from Art Nouveau and Neoclassicism. It was constructed between 1904 and 1906 using reinforced concrete. It can be argued that the building is a continuation of traditional architecture with all its elements such as decoration, sculpture, an underlying order, primarily vertical composition, far different from the complete break with tradition that the congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne (CIAM) advocated in the 1920s. The building houses the headquarters of the Österreichische Postsparkasse (P.S.K.) bank, formerly the k.k. Postsparcassen-Amt (Imperial-Royal Postal Savings Office). It is located at Georg-Coch-Platz 2, in the first district Innere Stadt, next to the Ringstraße boulevard.

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1. Very interesting and illustrating how Karl Lueger is so important. I am surprised that more is not made of him given the rebirth of the anti-liberal, anti-capitalist, anti-marxist nascent movements of our time...Lueger's popularist antisemitism against the poor emigre/refugee Jews from the russian pograms from below and stateless "jewish" liberal bankers (sic) from above...replace the jews with Eastern European and Syrian refugee/migrants and wanker bankers...and you have the same type of popularism seen in the new right wing parties across europe today.