Palais Sturany
Austria
Stand on the Schottenring at number 21, in Vienna's first district, and you are looking at a private house that was built to look like a public one. Palais Sturany went up from 1874 to plans by the architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, as a residence for Johann Sturany, the court master builder. It is not a castle in any defensive sense but a Ringstraße palace, one of the grand townhouses that lined Vienna's new boulevard, and its interest lies in the small ways it refused to behave like its neighbours.
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