Stock Photo - Insel in der Mur Island in the Mur, Plaza of the New Millennium. Architect: Vito Acconci Acconci Studio. The different sections, whether open or closed, each fulfil specific functions according to their spatial temperament: a small cafe, an amphitheatre, a children´s playground _ all in all a small, only halfway isolated cell of urban culture at a place that never belonged to the city, but which can now be reached at any time via landings, and becomes the centre of the goings_on. The Island will be able to welcome up to 300 visitors at a time. The shell houses an amphitheatre, and a cafe is located under a rounded dome. In the twist between the bowl and the dome a fantastic small landscape has been created where children have enough room to play. Acconci has both interior and exterior spaces melt into each other, just as the waters of the River keep on running into each other in an uninterrupted flow. The Island in the Mur thus becomes a whirl of ideas and forms, of functions and contents. We wanted to design something which clearly demarks two zones and make them interlace with each other the American borderliner between architecture and art explains his idea for 2003: People in the theatre see the playground in the background, when in the cafe, the playground becomes part of the roof. These two functions should not be separated radically, as the waters flows around the island in permanent motion, we wanted to construct something that keeps flowing and changing all the time. Conception and architectural design: Vito Acconci Acconci Studio. Idea and curatorial development: Robert Punkenhofer Art and Idea