Uniqa Tower
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| Uniqa Tower, seen from the Aspern Bridge | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Vienna - Leopoldstadt (2nd district) |
| Construction time : | October 2001 – June 2004 |
| Opening: | June 25, 2005 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architectural style : | Modern |
| Architect : | Heinz Neumann |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | High-rise office building |
| Jobs : | 1,100 |
| Owner : | UNIQA Insurance AG |
| Main tenant: | Uniqa Insurance Group |
| Client : | UNIQA Immobilien-Projekterrichtungs GmbH |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 75 m |
| Height to the top: | 80.7 m |
| Floors : | 25th |
| Usable area : | 38,500 m² m² |
| Floor area : | 31,244 m² m² |
| Enclosed space : | 140,000 m³ |
| Building-costs: | 70.04 million euros |
| Height comparison | |
| Vienna : | 28. ( list ) |
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| City: | Vienna |
| Country: | Austria |
The Uniqa Tower (spelling of the owner: UNIQA Tower ) is a climbing office building in Vienna - Leopoldstadt , Vienna's 2nd district.
It is located on Aspernbrückengasse , at the corner of Untere Donaustraße and Ferdinandstraße , on the banks of the Danube Canal, which the Aspern Bridge crosses here . On the other side of the river is the 1st district, the inner city , with Urania , Franz-Josefs-Kai and Stubenring .
The tower is 75 meters high and has 21 upper and five lower floors. The shape of the floor plan is a stylized Q , as it corresponds to the company logo of the Uniqa Insurance AG located in the building .
The more than 7,000 square meter facade was designed as a media facade with a dot matrix of LEDs . It consists of more than 40,000 pixels, based on approx. 160,000 individual LEDs. The system works on a video component basis at 25 frames per second. The concept for this was provided by the lighting planning office Licht Kunst Licht (Bonn and Berlin) in collaboration with the Berlin media artists Holger Mader , Alexander Stublic and Heike Wiermann ; the technical execution was carried out by the company Barco (Belgium). The media facade is sometimes also used as a large billboard .
The Uniqa Tower was built from October 2001 to June 2004 for around 70 million euros. The official opening took place on June 25, 2005. The architect of the building is the Viennese Heinz Neumann . When it was built, the tower was the first new office building in Austria to be awarded the EU label " Green Building ".
On October 25, 2006, the tower was awarded the building owner's prize awarded annually by the Central Association of Architects in Austria .
The insurance company that moved into the tower was previously based 250 meters upstream at the corner of Praterstrasse / Taborstrasse. Your abandoned office building was demolished; the Uniqa hotel and business building was built in its place .
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom against Jews in 1938 was the Uniqa Tower in Vienna at night from 6 to 11 November for the name storm .
literature
- Ute Woltron (text), Gerald Zugmann (photos), Uniqa Versicherungen AG (ed.): Uniqa-Tower. A landmark for Vienna. HFP-Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-200-00270-0 .
Web links
- Uniqa Tower on the Uniqa Insurance AG website
- The Uniqa Tower - Facts & Figures
- The media facade of the Uniqa Tower
- Daniela Hahn: Architectural psychological aspects using the example of selected high-rise office buildings in Vienna's architecture. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, July 2011, a. a. P. 105 (PDF; 4.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Uniqa Tower
- ↑ UNIQA Tower becomes a soccer field on June 14, 2018 in Ots.at
- ↑ Action instead of hot air , 5th Sep. 2019 (Ots.at).
- ↑ November pogrom 1938: DÖW, UNIQA and Raiffeisen set an example , from November 7, 2018, accessed on May 14, 2019 in Ots.at.
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 46 ″ N , 16 ° 23 ′ 1 ″ E