The current building was built in 1897/1898 according to plans by Franz Kupka and Gustav Orglmeister in the Italian Renaissance style and was built on a much smaller footprint. The elegant rooms on the ground floor on the Kärntner Straße side were used as a restaurant. A special attraction was the Majolica Hall in the basement, in which the walls and the cross vaults resting on pillars were completely covered with painted and colored majolica panels. The construction costs were given as 1.2 million crowns .

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