Marktraum am Naschmarkt
| Location | Naschmarkt, Vienna |
| Principal use | Market and public space |
| Year | 2023-2025 |
| Status | Marktraum and Naschpark: completed, Multifunctional space: ongoing |
| Design team – Mostlikely Architecture | Mark Neuner, Marc Werner, Christian Höhl, Marlene Lötsch, Fabian Haslinger, Felix Redmann, Irina Nalis, Xinxin Qiu, Carla Kar, Mal Ballata, Soryun Lee, Gil Grassmann, Sabine Schertler, Soňa Langová |
| Landscape Planning | D\D Landschaftsplanung |
| Structural engineering | Bollinger + Grohmann |
| Infrastructure | Axis Ingenieure |
| Traffic planning | FCP Verkehrsplanung |
| Building Physics | Bauklimatik |
| Electrical Planning | Allplan |
| Client | MA 59 / WGM / Stadt Wien |
| General Contractor | Porr |
| Photos & Graphics | Mostlikely Architecture and D\D Landschaftsplanung |
| Competition | 1st prize Mostlikely Architecture with D\D Landschaftsplanung and Buero de Martin |
The new Marktraum is an open, adaptable timber structure that connects the market, the city, and its people, creating a new heart for the historic Naschmarkt.
With its green-glazed façade and warm wooden surfaces, the architecture continues the familiar language of the Naschmarkt.
It creates a space for trade, encounter, and everyday life – where quality of life and quality of food come together, carrying Vienna’s market culture into the future.
The Marktraum Naschmarkt stands for an architecture that connects – rather than divides – city and everyday life, climate and culture, people and markets. For us, it is the expression of a long-standing engagement with the market as a social space.
A place for the market, the city, and the community.
The Marktraum is an open, flexible place where commerce, community, and daily life intertwine. As a new entrance to the Naschmarkt, it sets a clear signal for a contemporary market culture. Conceived as a covered extension of the farmers’ market, it strengthens regional food trade and offers Vienna’s producers a permanent, weather-protected home. Large, openable façades and a central public passage connect the market with the surrounding neighborhood.
As a hybrid lightweight structure, the Marktraum rests on slender steel columns above the Wienfluss vault. Its timber-and-steel frame creates openness and flexibility, while the green-glazed larch façade and light-oiled oak interiors root the building in the site’s atmosphere.
Inside, twelve market stalls, a market bar, a communal table, and a workshop kitchen invite exchange and shared experience. The public kitchen and workshop space host events on food, craft, and community.
Photo by: Felix Redmann 
Photo by: Felix Redmann 
Above, a green public rooftop terrace offers a consumption-free meeting place – an open garden above the market, where city and nature meet. From here, visitors overlook the Wienzeile ensemble, Otto Wagner’s buildings, and the new Naschpark.
Photo by: Felix Redmann 
Photo by: Felix Redmann 
From Parking Lot to Public Space
The Marktraum is the centerpiece of a transformation that turns the Naschmarkt from asphalt into a climate-active, communal urban landscape. Developed with DnD Landschaftsplanung, the project unites architecture and open space – the Marktraum as social hub, the Naschpark as green lung for the neighborhood.
The Blooming Naschmarkt reinterprets one of Vienna’s most iconic places: a public space that connects quality of life with the quality of food, carrying the city’s rich market tradition into the future.
