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Wien, 22. Bezirk, Donaucity (DC Tower), top level of Vienna with a height of 220 meters, 60 floors and an overall weight of approximately 250.000 tons (Architect Dominique Perrault)
The DC Tower 1 (Oct , 2013)
The focus of the Neue Donau Housing Estate
Location: Donau City, Vienna
Construction period: 17 June 2010-1. October 2013 (DC Tower 1 ) or after DC Tower 1 ( DC Tower 2)
Status: partially finished, partly in planning
Style: Postmodernism
Architect: Dominique Perrault
Use: Office, hotel, restaurant, apartments
Owner: VIENNA DC Tower 1 Liegenschaftsbesitz (property possession) GmbH (a subsidiary of WED AG Group)
Specifications
Height: 220 or 168 m
Height to tip of 248 and 168 m
Height to the roof: 220 and 168 m
Depth: 40m
Floors: 60 (DC Tower 1)
44 (DC Tower 2)
Usable area: 66,000 m² and 41,000 m²
Floor Area: approx 93,600 sqm above 0, 44,000 m² of 0 (DC Tower 1)
61,700 above 0 ( DC Tower 2) m²
Material: steel, concrete, glass
Height comparison
Vienna: 1 and 3 (List)
Austria: 1 and 3 (List)
Europe: 18 and 50, respectively (List)
The DC Towers (actually Danube City Towers ) are two by French star architect Dominique Perrault at the Vienna Danube City planned skyscrapers. The first of the two buildings is purely externally structurally completed, the official completion date was 1 October 2013. However, the interior works are still ongoing. The second, smaller building is still in the planning phase.
General
The externally finished DC Tower 1 is 250 meters (without facade construction and antenna 220 meters) high and thus currently the tallest building in Austria. It now surpasses the Millennium Tower (the tallest building in Austria with 252 meters remains the Danube Tower).
The DC Tower 2 is currently planned with 168 meters and is therefore the fourth highest building in Vienna. The start of construction was delayed several times - not least due to the global financial crisis - which is why the ground-breacking ceremony not until 17th June 2010 took place. The construction of the Towers 1 is completed (in the inside work is still ongoing), the construction of Towers 2 has yet to begin.
The design of the towers is designed by Dominique Perrault in cooperation with the Vienna office Hoffmann- anz architects. A striking feature of both buildings is the step-like structure suspended facade. In order to absorb lateral forces due to wind, was between the 56th and 60 Floor built a 305-ton pendulum. As one of the first Austrian office towers the DC Tower 1 was by the energy and sustainability requirements of the EU Commission for a "green building" LEED certification earmarked.
Planned use (DC Tower 1)
Most floors are to be used as office levels. The Baxter should be major tenant of office space. On the upper floors arise so-called Sky-lofts. In the lower 15 floors of the DC Tower, a four-star hotel of the Spanish Sol Meliá group will move in, in one of the upper floors a restaurant will be set up. In June 2012 (Vienna Development Company for the Danube area) are rented just over 50 percent of the area, according to the project operator WED.
Floors 1-15: hotel group Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts SA
Floors 16-17 : home automation
Floors 18-42 : office
Floors 43-44 : home automation
Floors 45-52 :
Floors 53-56 : two-storey flats
Floors 57-58 : Restaurant, Skybar
Floors 59-60 :
Progress
2010
The first activities in the then vacant land were observed at the end of February 2010. The start of construction was finally on 17 June 2010. In November, the first stake holes were started and the first permanently mounted crane came into use. In December, the construction of the foundation was already in full swing. By the end of the year was built only on the foundation.
2011
In 2011, the most visible progress was made. End of March 2011, the construction was started in early April and the first underground floors were completed. End of April, the first above-ground floor was built and the concrete core took visible proportions. There were now five solid construction cranes working. Beginning of the month of June, the first fixed roof crane was mounted and movable weather protection was installed. In July it was under construction, the DC Tower 1 is already visible from any higher buildings of Vienna. That same month, the far left crane, growing with the tower, was attached to the building and the first freight elevator on the west side of the tower was installed. In August 2011, the concrete core disappeared into the building and growing of the 13th Floor was completed. Furthermore, we started with the high traction of the glass facade on the west- north- and south-side.
In September was began with the construction of the glass facade on the east side of the building. Laterally has indeed been pulled the facade on all four sides of the tower to wind and weather protection, but hardly Höhenbaufortschritt (upside construction progression) was seen. This was due to the outrigger floors which are to ensure the stability of the building. These floors were completed in late November, but the weather protection since then grew by only 1 floor. Due to this, the expected opening date of early 2013 has been postponed until at least Summer 2013.
Construction since 2012 and Future
As of spring 2012, there was another height growth. All 4.8 days the tower grew by a storey. End of April 2012 was worked on the 32nd floor which marks approximately half the final height. On 25 October in the same year was yet on the 60th and last stage worked. According to WED it is worked six days a week. On the tower two cranes were in use. They grew with the building. One was fixed to the outer skin, the other was placed in one of the elevator shafts. They have just like all working lifts already been removed. In late summer 2013, the last façade elements were in assembly. On 19 September of the same year, the 30 meter high antenna was finally placed in position by a special helicopter of the company Heliswiss. Externally, the building is thus regarded as completed.
In October 2013 the first tenants will be moving into the DC Tower 1. Earliest by 2015, the DC Tower 2 is supposed to get the starting shot for construction.
Wien, 22. Bezirk, Donaucity (DC Tower), top level of Vienna with a height of 220 meters, 60 floors and an overall weight of approximately 250.000 tons (Architect Dominique Perrault)
The DC Tower 1 (Oct , 2013)
The focus of the Neue Donau Housing Estate
Location: Donau City, Vienna
Construction period: 17 June 2010-1. October 2013 (DC Tower 1 ) or after DC Tower 1 ( DC Tower 2)
Status: partially finished, partly in planning
Style: Postmodernism
Architect: Dominique Perrault
Use: Office, hotel, restaurant, apartments
Owner: VIENNA DC Tower 1 Liegenschaftsbesitz (property possession) GmbH (a subsidiary of WED AG Group)
Specifications
Height: 220 or 168 m
Height to tip of 248 and 168 m
Height to the roof: 220 and 168 m
Depth: 40m
Floors: 60 (DC Tower 1)
44 (DC Tower 2)
Usable area: 66,000 m² and 41,000 m²
Floor Area: approx 93,600 sqm above 0, 44,000 m² of 0 (DC Tower 1)
61,700 above 0 ( DC Tower 2) m²
Material: steel, concrete, glass
Height comparison
Vienna: 1 and 3 (List)
Austria: 1 and 3 (List)
Europe: 18 and 50, respectively (List)
The DC Towers (actually Danube City Towers ) are two by French star architect Dominique Perrault at the Vienna Danube City planned skyscrapers. The first of the two buildings is purely externally structurally completed, the official completion date was 1 October 2013. However, the interior works are still ongoing. The second, smaller building is still in the planning phase.
General
The externally finished DC Tower 1 is 250 meters (without facade construction and antenna 220 meters) high and thus currently the tallest building in Austria. It now surpasses the Millennium Tower (the tallest building in Austria with 252 meters remains the Danube Tower).
The DC Tower 2 is currently planned with 168 meters and is therefore the fourth highest building in Vienna. The start of construction was delayed several times - not least due to the global financial crisis - which is why the ground-breacking ceremony not until 17th June 2010 took place. The construction of the Towers 1 is completed (in the inside work is still ongoing), the construction of Towers 2 has yet to begin.
The design of the towers is designed by Dominique Perrault in cooperation with the Vienna office Hoffmann- anz architects. A striking feature of both buildings is the step-like structure suspended facade. In order to absorb lateral forces due to wind, was between the 56th and 60 Floor built a 305-ton pendulum. As one of the first Austrian office towers the DC Tower 1 was by the energy and sustainability requirements of the EU Commission for a "green building" LEED certification earmarked.
Planned use (DC Tower 1)
Most floors are to be used as office levels. The Baxter should be major tenant of office space. On the upper floors arise so-called Sky-lofts. In the lower 15 floors of the DC Tower, a four-star hotel of the Spanish Sol Meliá group will move in, in one of the upper floors a restaurant will be set up. In June 2012 (Vienna Development Company for the Danube area) are rented just over 50 percent of the area, according to the project operator WED.
Floors 1-15: hotel group Sol Meliá Hotels & Resorts SA
Floors 16-17 : home automation
Floors 18-42 : office
Floors 43-44 : home automation
Floors 45-52 :
Floors 53-56 : two-storey flats
Floors 57-58 : Restaurant, Skybar
Floors 59-60 :
Progress
2010
The first activities in the then vacant land were observed at the end of February 2010. The start of construction was finally on 17 June 2010. In November, the first stake holes were started and the first permanently mounted crane came into use. In December, the construction of the foundation was already in full swing. By the end of the year was built only on the foundation.
2011
In 2011, the most visible progress was made. End of March 2011, the construction was started in early April and the first underground floors were completed. End of April, the first above-ground floor was built and the concrete core took visible proportions. There were now five solid construction cranes working. Beginning of the month of June, the first fixed roof crane was mounted and movable weather protection was installed. In July it was under construction, the DC Tower 1 is already visible from any higher buildings of Vienna. That same month, the far left crane, growing with the tower, was attached to the building and the first freight elevator on the west side of the tower was installed. In August 2011, the concrete core disappeared into the building and growing of the 13th Floor was completed. Furthermore, we started with the high traction of the glass facade on the west- north- and south-side.
In September was began with the construction of the glass facade on the east side of the building. Laterally has indeed been pulled the facade on all four sides of the tower to wind and weather protection, but hardly Höhenbaufortschritt (upside construction progression) was seen. This was due to the outrigger floors which are to ensure the stability of the building. These floors were completed in late November, but the weather protection since then grew by only 1 floor. Due to this, the expected opening date of early 2013 has been postponed until at least Summer 2013.
Construction since 2012 and Future
As of spring 2012, there was another height growth. All 4.8 days the tower grew by a storey. End of April 2012 was worked on the 32nd floor which marks approximately half the final height. On 25 October in the same year was yet on the 60th and last stage worked. According to WED it is worked six days a week. On the tower two cranes were in use. They grew with the building. One was fixed to the outer skin, the other was placed in one of the elevator shafts. They have just like all working lifts already been removed. In late summer 2013, the last façade elements were in assembly. On 19 September of the same year, the 30 meter high antenna was finally placed in position by a special helicopter of the company Heliswiss. Externally, the building is thus regarded as completed.
In October 2013 the first tenants will be moving into the DC Tower 1. Earliest by 2015, the DC Tower 2 is supposed to get the starting shot for construction.