Vienna Twin Tower

Vienna Twin Tower
	Vienna Twin Tower as seen from the Favoriten Water Tower
Basic data
Place:	Vienna
Construction time :	1999-2001
Status :	Built
Architect :	Massimiliano Fuksas
Use / legal
Usage :	High-rise office building
Client :	Wienerberger Baustoffindustrie AG and Immofinanz Immobilien Anlagen AG
Technical specifications
Height :	138 or 127 m
Height to the top:	138 or 127 m
Floors :	35
Usable area :	over 200,000 m²
Height comparison
Vienna :	4th or 5th ( list )
Austria :	4th or 5th ( list )
address
City:	Vienna
Country:	Austria

The Vienna Twin Tower is a building complex in the Wienerberg City district of Vienna in the Inzersdorf-Stadt district in the 10th district of Favoriten . It is located on the ridge of the Wienerberg , on Wienerbergstrasse and near Triester Strasse . The building complex, together with the WBS7-9 building, is part of the myhive real estate site on Wienerberg (formerly Business Park Vienna ).

Vertical view down from the higher twin tower.

The double building is the tallest building within this new development area, in which a number of residential and office buildings are housed. Construction began in 1999 and was completed in 2001. The high-rise has 35 (above-ground) floors and office space of over 100,000 square meters. The tower consists of two building halves arranged at an obtuse angle to each other, which are 138 and 127 meters high and connected to each other by several bridges. The architect is Massimiliano Fuksas , the construction was financed by Wienerberger Baustoffindustrie AG and Immofinanz Immobilien Anlagen AG . The building includes the twelve conference center , Vienna's highest event rooms on the 35th floor, the ThirtyFive , as well as a Cineplexx cinema with ten halls as well as various cafés, restaurants and a fitness studio. Around 50 companies from various industries are renting the buildings, including the builders Immofinanz and Wienerberger as well as the companies Böhringer Ingelheim , Vaillant and Grohe . The three underground garages offer 2,000 parking spaces.

The Vienna Twin Tower is located south of the center of Vienna, right next to the Wienerberg recreation area , where, among other things, a golf course can be found.

There were also critical voices about the planning process for the Vienna Twin Tower, as the urban planner Reinhard Seiß criticized in his book Wer Baut Wien, among other things, for the inadequate connection of the project to public transport and criticized the dominance of investor interests.

Business Park Vienna staircase

From 2010 to 2012 the “Business Park Vienna Stiegenlauf ” took place annually in the Business Park Vienna . Participants from 16 nations between the ages of 11 and 64 took part. There were 130 meters in altitude, 34 floors and 680 stairs to climb. The target was on the 35th floor. The run took place in different categories, in 2011 it was the Iron Challenge, Classic and Relay Challenge.