This is Monocle on Design Extra.
It's a short show to accompany our weekly program where we discuss everything from architecture and craft to furniture and graphic design.
I'm Maelie Evans.
Never at Home is a Vienna based art initiative that takes over vacant sites and transforms them for temporary artistic use.
The team's latest venture, the Funkhaus, was the former radio building of Austria's national broadcaster, orf.
The space is, for the moment, a collection of studios and an events venue.
The project is temporary, as the listed building is set to be converted into residential housing, though when that will happen remains unclear.
Let's join Monocle's correspondent in Vienna, Alexei Korolev, as he visits the Funkhaus.
I leave this town.
I walk away with my eyes wide, wide open.
So my name is Elsa Strikesner.
I rent the studio with my band, we're called Elsa.
Super glad that we could get this space and have a rehearsal room where we have a actual baylight, which is great.
You never get that as a musician.
Elze and I are in what used to be a radio control room with a window running the full length of the wall, looking out over a sprawling park below.
There are rooms like this all along the corridor.
For decades, this building, the Funkhaus, was the heart of Austrian radio, Der Osterreiche Rundfunk, home to all the stations of the country's stade broadcaster Oref.
For elser building, being here means something.
The moment you enter the building, you feel a bit.
How should I say?