Uniqa Tower
Uniqa Tower, Wien
General information
StatusCompleted
Typemodern
Town or cityVienna
CountryAustria
Coordinates48°12′46″N 16°23′01″E / 48.2128°N 16.3836°E / 48.2128; 16.3836
Construction startedOctober 2001
CompletedJune 2004
Opening25. June 2005
Cost70,04 million euro
OwnerUniqa Insurance Group
Height80.7 m (265 ft)
Technical details
Floor count25
Floor area38,500 m2 (414,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)Heinz Neumann
DeveloperUNIQA Immobilien-Projekterrichtungs GmbH

The Uniqa Tower (owner's spelling: UNIQA Tower) is an office building on the Danube Canal in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Vienna.[1] The building received the European Union Green Building label. It is the first building in Austria and one of the first buildings in Europe to bear the label.[2]

Architecture

The tower is 75 meters high, has 21 upper floors and five basement floors. The shape of the floor plan is a stylized "Q", as it corresponds to the logo of Uniqa Insurance Group 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 approximately 160,000 individual LEDs. The system works on a video component basis with 25 frames per second.[3] The concept was provided by the lighting design office Licht Kunst Licht in cooperation with the German media artists Holger Mader, Alexander Stublic and Heike Wiermann.[4] The technical implementation was carried out by the Belgian technology company Barco. The media façade is also occasionally used as a large billboard. The Uniqa Tower was built between October 2001 and June 2004 for approximately 70 million euros.[5]

The official opening took place on 25 June 2005. The architect of the building is Heinz Neumann from Vienna.[6] When it was built, the Tower was the first new office building in Austria to be awarded the EU label Green Building.[7] One third of the building's energy consumption is provided for by a heat pump and geothermal heating.[8]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ Uniqa Tower, retrieved on 31. August 2020 in Skyscrapercenter.com
  2. ↑ Uniqa Tower, retrieved on 31. August 2020 in Emporis.com
  3. ↑ UNIQA Tower: a new landmark for Vienna, on 24. June 2004 in Uniqagroup.com
  4. ↑ Mader Wiermann: Transforming Places and Perceptions, on 21. March 2019 in Artichoke.uk.com
  5. ↑ Uniqa Tower, retrieved on 31. August 2020 in Barco.com
  6. ↑ Interview: Heinz Neumann, on 27. February 2016 in Goldenesquartier.com
  7. ↑ UNIQA Tower in Vienna is the first building in the European Union to receive the “green praise” from Brussels, on 4. March 2008 in Advantageaustria.org
  8. ↑ Uniqa Tower, retrieved on 31. August 2020 in Emporis.com
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