Quay Palace
The Kai-Palast in Vienna was built in 1910/1911 at Franz-Josefs-Kai 47.
The building designed by the architect Ignaz Nathan Reiser was Austria's first reinforced concrete office high-rise and was a listed building .
The building, which has been owned by Zürich-Kosmos Versicherung since 1930 , was to be renovated in 1997. However, it turned out that it had been badly damaged in a fire in 1945. Seemingly intact reinforced concrete parts of the primary structure were badly damaged, and an expert report confirmed that the load-bearing capacity was up to 50 percent lower. The house had to be evacuated.
In 1999 the Federal Monuments Office lifted the protection status, and in February 2001 the demolition permit was granted. In the course of the demolition work on Thursday, April 5, 2001, shortly before 5.30 p.m., the false ceiling on the 6th floor collapsed, which carried all the false ceilings down to the ground floor. Nobody was harmed because the construction workers had already left the construction site at this point.
The next building , the k47 , was opened on October 10, 2003 . The building was designed by the architects Henke / Schreieck and is owned by Zürich Kosmos Versicherung . It has around 4200 m² of usable space and 50 underground parking spaces.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 55 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 20 ″ E