General Information
| Other name(s): | DC Tower 1 |
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| Beginning of works: | 17 June 2010 |
| Completion: | 26 February 2014 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Office building |
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Awards and Distinctions
| 2014 |
Award of Excellence
for registered users |
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Location
| Location: |
Vienna 22 (Donaustadt), Vienna, Austria |
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| Coordinates: | 48° 13' 55" N 16° 24' 47" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| height | 250 m | |
| number of floors (above ground) | 60 | |
| useable space | ca. 66 000 m² |
Case Studies and Applied Products
Semi-active dampers respond to various load cases
Vienna has a new landmark – at least one half of it: the Danube City Tower 1 protrudes 220 m into the air. Winds let the tower vibrate constantly, moreover in the Vienna region storms or even earthquake have to be considered. A 300 ton mass ...
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The DC Towers (also known as Donau City Towers) will be a pair of towers in Vienna's Donaucity. DC Tower 1 is complete and the first tenants moved into the offices in October 2013. Construction of DC Tower 2 will start afterwards. French architect Dominique Perrault has designed both towers.
General
DC Tower 1 is 220 metres high (250 metres including the antenna spire) which makes it the tallest skyscraper in Austria as it will be 18 metres higher than Millennium Tower, which was leading that ranking before. The DC Tower 1 was officially finished with an opening ceremony on Feb 26, 2014 by Buzz Aldrin. DC Tower 2 is expected to be 168 metres high which will make it Vienna's fourth tallest building.
Due to the global financial crisis 2007, ground breaking had to be delayed several times. Eventually construction was started on 17 June 2010. After slightly more than three years, DC Tower 1 is outwardly complete, while works inside the building are on-going. Work will start on DC Tower 2 after DC Tower 1 has been fully completed. Most of the available floor space will be used for offices. Baxter International has been confirmed as one of the largest tenants at DC Towers. The upper floors will be used for sky lofts, while the first 15 floors will house a four-star hotel operated by the Spanish Sol Meliá Group. There will also be a restaurant in one of the top floors. As of June 2012 tenants have been confirmed for 50 percent of the floor space according to the owner WED (Wiener Entwicklungsgesellschaft für den Donauraum).
Text imported from Wikipedia article "DC Towers" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
Participants
Architecture
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Dominique Perrault Architecture
- Dominique Perrault (architect)
Subcontractor
Material supplier
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2019): Adaptive TMD System for Reduced Space Demand in Tall Buildings. Presented at: IABSE Congress: The Evolving Metropolis, New York, NY, USA, 4-6 September 2019, pp. 377-383.
- Danube City Tower: Semi-active dampers respond to various load cases. In: Steel Construction, v. 8, n. 3 (August 2015), pp. 219-220.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20046118 - Published on:
17/07/2009 - Last updated on:
06/10/2015
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