Hannes Lintl

Hannes Lintl (born July 2, 1924 in Vienna ; † June 13, 2003 there ) was an Austrian architect .

Live and act

The Danube Tower designed by Hannes Lintl

Lintl was a trained carpenter and graduate of Clemens Holzmeister's master class for architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . In 1957 he received the civil engineering license and founded an architecture office. As a result, he was involved in various working groups in the planning and construction of several office and administration buildings, hospitals, industrial plants, shopping centers, churches, residential buildings and hotels.

From 1961 to 1964, his best-known work was the Danube Tower , a viewing tower on the grounds of the Vienna International Garden Show ( WIG 64 ) based on plans by Lintl and the structural engineer Robert Krapfenbauer . He was also the lead architect of ARGE Architektur for the construction of the General Hospital of the City of Vienna from 1968 to 1974.

In Jordan , from 1967 was Lintl General of the land in Austria, built it, among other things, the TV Production Center in Amman and was involved in the renovation of the Raghadan palace of the former king Abdallah ibn Husain I. involved. In Riyadh ( Saudi Arabia ) he set up the Austrian embassy.

In 1990, according to other sources in 1995, he handed over the management of his architectural office to his son Christian Lintl.

Hannes Lintl was buried in the Baumgartner Friedhof (group B1, number 161).

Realizations

PVA headquarters in Vienna's 2nd district with Kurt Hlaweniczka (1977–1981)

1961–1964 with structural engineer Robert Krapfenbauer : Donauturm
around 1968 with Siegfried A. Mörth: HTL Bau und Design Innsbruck
1968–1974 General Hospital of the City of Vienna
1977–1981 with Kurt Hlaweniczka : Pension insurance company for employees at Handelskai in the 2nd district of Vienna

Awards

Large silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria
Grand Cordon of the Order Al Istiqlal (Jordan)
1966: Gold Medal for Architecture of the City of Vienna
1969: professional title professor
2001: Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
2007: Hannes-Lintl-Gasse in Vienna's Breitenlee district is named after him.

literature

Helmut Weihsmann: Built in Vienna, encyclopedia of 20th century Viennese architects (p. 228–229). Promedia. Vienna 2005. ISBN 3853712347

Web links

Commons : Hannes Lintl - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website architects Lintl ( memento from February 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), as of September 2, 2005.
Postcard with the upper part of the Danube Tower in the original form of construction and advertising: the so-called "children's terrace" still unglazed (until the year 2000) and the viewing terrace with the inwardly curved bars as "suicide protection" (since 2000: fully barred from the terrace railing to to the now glazed terrace). At the top of the tower: The stylized beer glass as the logo of “Schwechater” directly above the tower shaft (later: Logo of A1 , since at least the beginning of 2008 only the original logo construction without the neon tubes of the stylized beer glass) and at the upper end of the tubular steel mast the rotatable logo “ Z "of the Zentralsparkasse (from 1998 the " Red Wave "of Bank Austria , from 2008 the logo of UniCredit Bank Austria ).

Individual evidence

↑ www.lintl.at: 40 years of the Donauturm ( Memento from February 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^a ^b APA -OTS: Architect Professor Hannes Lintl died , June 17, 2003 (accessed November 16, 2009)
↑ www.lintl.at: Short biographies of Hannes and Christian Lintl ( Memento from February 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
^ Architects Wien Mitte: Christian Lintl ( Memento from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 17, 2009)
↑ www.lintl.at: History of the Lintl Architects' Office ( Memento from February 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
↑ www.lintl.at: Completed projects with a settlement sum of more than ATS 150 million or EUR 10.9 million (per project) ( Memento from February 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

^ Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4 ( Online )

personal data
SURNAME	Lintl, Hannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lintl, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH	July 2, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	June 13, 2003
Place of death	Vienna

[1] www.lintl.at: 40 years of the Donauturm ( Memento from February 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

[APA-2] APA -OTS: Architect Professor Hannes Lintl died , June 17, 2003 (accessed November 16, 2009)

[3] www.lintl.at: Short biographies of Hannes and Christian Lintl ( Memento from February 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Architects Wien Mitte: Christian Lintl ( Memento from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 17, 2009)

[5] www.lintl.at: History of the Lintl Architects' Office ( Memento from February 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

[6] www.lintl.at: Completed projects with a settlement sum of more than ATS 150 million or EUR 10.9 million (per project) ( Memento from February 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

[7] Felix Czeike : Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 4 ( Online )