BWM Designers & Architects are an award-winning architecture office that operates throughout Europe. Their main areas of focus are architecture, interior design, narrative design and hospitality. Founded in 2004 and led by Erich Bernard, Daniela Walten, Johann Moser, Markus Kaplan and András Klopfer, the company and the multinational 70-member team stand for a personal approach and a cooperative development process. Whether designing interior spaces, residential and urban construction projects, or museum and exhibition concepts, BWM Designers & Architects always work out a specific project’s unique formal language and the corresponding design concept in strategic workshops with the client.
BWM has always attached great importance to the topic of historic protection and redevelopment of existing structure. The many outstanding projects of the past years include the transformation of the 25hours Hotel from a 1970s student residence into a cool design hotel clearly rooted in the 21st century, the internationally recognised Hotel Topazz with its distinctive oval windows and chocolate-brown façade, the revitalisation of the hotel ensemble Grand Hotel Straubinger and Hotel Badeschloss in Bad Gastein as well as recently the redesign of architect Carl Appel's office building as The Hoxton, Vienna and being commissioned for the redesign of Funkhaus Wien.
BWM Designers & Architects have also created innovative hospitality concepts that translate urban trends for the lifestyle sector like the grätzlhotel, beautiful designer suites instead of vacant street-front shops. Recent interior projects include the conception of well-known and innovative brands such as A by Adina, Revo Munich or Hotel Indigo. BWM are also active as F&B designers and have refurbished shop, café and salon in the legendary Hotel Sacher, restaurant Figlmüller Bäckerstrasse, Caffè Sacher Trieste and the listed premises of the Vienna City Hall Rathauskeller.
BWM was responsible for the architectural design of the Austrian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka. Further standout projects in the area of narrative design include the plans for the Austrian Literature Museum, the House of Austrian History (hdgö), as well as the redesign of the visitor's center at the Vienna State Opera, the library in the Austrian Parliament and the former synagogue in St. Pölten. In the exhibition area, the Albertina's autumn exhibition “Gothic Modern” is currently running.
left to right: Markus Kaplan, Daniela Walten, Erich Bernard, Johann Moser, András Klopfer