After the covering of the Danube riverside motorway, this site, which originally had been singled out for the aborted Vienna-Budapest World’s Fair of 1995, was envisioned by the development company WED to become a new urban expansion area. Since 1998, intense construction activities include housing estates and office towers in this satellite centre efficiently linked to Vienna’s city by the U1 Underground line.

• Bauzeit: 1990-1999
• PlanerIn: Margarethe Cufer, Hans Hollein, Adolf Krischanitz, Hermann Czech, Arata Isozaki, Roman Delugan, Gustav Peichl, Heinz Neumann, Michael Loudon, Wilhelm Holzbauer
• Client: WED
• Building type: Urban planning
• Reachability: U1-Kaisermühlen - Vienna Int. Centre
• Accessibility: The open-air zones and churches are publicly accessible, the lobby of the Tech Gate Tower is publicly accessible, model of Donau City on 1st floor
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

Together with the entire Tech Gate ensemble, the Tech Gate Tower forms a kind of gateway to the Donau City site. The prismatic, triangular tower with its curving glass façade is placed atop a "bastion" built before in conjunction with Tech Gate. The building is capped off majestically with an event-venue top storey featuring a terrace.

• PlanerIn: Holzbauer und Partner
• Building type: Office and government
• Reachability: U1-Kaisermühlen - Vienna Int. Centre
• Accessibility: Publicly accessible lobby, model of Donau City on 1st floor
• Foto: MA19

Two high-rise slabs of roughly 100 metres vie with each other for height. Arranged parallel though slightly displaced one vis-à-vis the other, the two narrow blocks shine with a cool and glassy look, elegant entrance hall, exquisite furnishings and classy sky lobby at the heart of the Donau City development, thus adding another chic element to the group of international office high-rises in the area.

• PlanerIn: HNP architects
• Building type: Office and government
• Reachability: U1-Kaisermühlen - Vienna Int. Centre
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

The interplay of receding and projecting elements structures the mass of this roughly 100-metre glass tower situated along the north-western edge of the Donau City site. A wide, cantilevered canopy roof above the large, elegant sky lobby with terrace marks the outstanding silhouette of this splendidly appointed building.

• Bauzeit: 2002-2005
• PlanerIn: Hans Hollein, HNP architects
• Client: WED
• Building type: Office and government
• Reachability: U1-Kaisermühlen - Vienna Int. Centre
• Accessibility: Ground-floor restaurant designed by architect Andreas Burghardt
• Foto: MA19

A V-shaped layout divides the yellow-illuminated Asian restaurant near the Western Railway Station into two longitudinal sections, i.e. restaurant and bar. Kitchen, sanitary units and storerooms are situated in-between. A hidden surprise effect is created by the shiny red-and-white, avant-garde tatami room as an extravagant private facility.

• Bauzeit: 2003-2004
• PlanerIn: BEHF Architects
• Client: Hu cheng Long KEG
• Building type: Hotel and restaurants
• Reachability: U3/U6 Westbahnhof
• Accessibility: During business hours
• Foto: MA19

This addition to the Stadthalle, Roland Rainer’s established masterpiece, was designed by a team of Vorarlberg architects and sensitively yet self-confidently engages in a difficult dialogue by subtly interpreting the scales and materials, structures and building morphology of the main wing.

• Bauzeit: 2003-2006
• PlanerIn: Dietrich | Untertrifaller
• Client: Wiener Stadthalle Betriebs- und Veranstaltungsges. m. b. H
• Building type: Sports and recreation
• Reachability: U6 Burggasse - Stadthalle
• Accessibility: During events
• The Stadthalle Wien, for which an international competition won by Roland Rainer (1958) was held, is characterised by the big event hall’s unique structural strength (no supports are needed), spatial flexibility and perfect emergency exit organisation. Additions: Stadthallenbad (1974), Hall E with Johanna Rainer (1994).
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

In 1894, Otto Wagner was commissioned with the architectural design of the Stadtbahn network with its 36 stations, viaducts and bridges over a total length of 40 km. With respect to their design, place in architectural history and Vienna’s urbanistic tissue, the station buildings, which were planned for above- and belowground line routing, are outstanding examples of mass transit structures.

• Bauzeit: 1894-1899
• PlanerIn: Otto Wagner
• Client: k.k. Österr. Staatsbahnen
• Building type: Traffic
• Reachability: f.e.: U6 stations between Nußdorfer Straße and Gumpendorfer Straße
• Accessibility: The stations are publicly accessible
• In addition to the Stadtbahn arches and station buildings, Otto Wagner’s structures for mass transit also include the Imperial Pavilion, Gürtel Bridge and Nussdorf Lock.
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

Three acute-angled concrete structures, which largely comprise housing units as well as some offices, café and restaurant premises, wind their way through, around and above the historic viaducts of the former Stadtbahn suburban line. However, this urbanistically highly interesting location at the junction of Danube Canal and Gürtel has proven very problematic for housing purposes.

• Bauzeit: 2004-2005
• PlanerIn: Zaha M. Hadid
• Client: SEG
• Building type: Residential
• Reachability: U4/U6 Spittelau
• Foto: Rupert Christanell

Tillner&Willinger create an outstanding office building with boldly curving, elliptical lines for one of the most exciting hubs of the city, set above the Stadtbahn arches of Spittelau. The lightweight steel-glass structure contrasts with the massive viaducts and encompasses a sickle-shaped courtyard.

• Bauzeit: 2006-2008
• PlanerIn: Architekten Tillner & Willinger, RAHM Architekten
• Building type: Office and government
• Reachability: U4/U6 Spittelau
• Accessibility: Ground-floor restaurant during business hours
• Foto: Rupert Christanell