Tall glass skyscraper in a modern urban complex, with a transit plaza, roads, and pedestrians.
A01
Austria
  • High-Rise
  • Mixed Use
  • Office
  • Competition

The Business Centre A01 is part of the urban development area near Vienna’s new main central railway station. As such, it blends effortlessly into the overriding concept. The design is primarily defined by the location’s urban vitality generated by the given conditions and functions. Situated between the interface of the new railway station, an emerging office quarter and the busy arterial Wiedner Gürtel, the new building acts as a considerable functional hub with great urban significance and character. 

The building’s concept incorporates the interplay of all local factors, therefore underlining the distinctive, elegant unobtrusiveness of this clearly visible ensemble. The docking points of the main traffic routes between train station, Gürtel and the new office quarter clearly represent soft incisions into the building’s edgy ground volume. Therefore creating a structure of three segments, generating a triple address and giving each section its own particular function.

Competition
4 / 2013

Floor area
72.165 m²

Gross surface area
116.090 m²

Gross surface area (above ground)
94.318 m²

Site area
8.236 m²

Built-up area
7.156 m²

Hight
88 m

Number of levels
24

Number of basements
3

Project team

Philip Beckmann
Sebastian Brunke
Waldemar Wilwer
Michael Lohmann
Diogo Teixera
Christoph Haas
Alexandro Cortes Carrera
Sabrina Miletich
Win Man


CONSULTANTS
Statics/ HVACR
VASKO+PARTNER

Facade
Schott

Renderings
ON3 Studio GmbH

Client / Awarding Body
SIGNA Baufeldentwicklungs GmbH & Co OG

Site plan of an urban development with building footprints, roads, tree-lined avenues, and a central landscaped plaza beside railway tracks.

site plan

Modern glass-brick office complex with a curved connecting block; pedestrians cross a wide urban intersection.

Rendering: ON3 studio

Spiral, multi-level white atrium with curved balconies, escalators, and people walking; red-leaf tree centerpiece under a large skylight.

Rendering: ON3 studio

Architectural cross-section of a multi-block building with a tall tower, showing floors, staircases, and underground levels.

section

Architectural site plan of a triangular building complex around a central plaza, with connecting walkways and surrounding roads.

ground floor plan

Architectural floor plan of a star-shaped building with a central circular atrium and three wings housing offices and rooms.

 plan level 03

Top-down floor plan of a multi-wing building centered on an oval atrium, with curved corridors and perimeter offices.

plan level 07 

Wooden abstract sculpture with a curved notch and circular opening housing metal springs, on a white base against a black background.

model