Series "Mensch Lugner"

The path to becoming a building tycoon and where he will live forever

One of his most famous buildings is the Islamic Center in Vienna Floridsdorf. Lugner has also immortalized himself in many other places ...(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Peter Tomschi)

With a great deal of hard work and ambition, Richard Lugner graduated from the Federal Trade School and worked his way up to become a successful entrepreneur. In the process, he also left many traces in Vienna's city center - some of which will probably last forever. Parts two and three of our "Mensch Lugner" series.

His mother Leopoldine laid the foundations for Richard Lugner's later career when she enrolled her "Binki", as she affectionately called him, at the Federal Trade School for Mechanical, Electrical, Structural and Civil Engineering. Initially a little unsure whether he was up to the challenge of "building construction", Lugner finally graduated in 1953 and just days later started his first job at the Lorenz construction company, which he already knew from summer internships.