| Project Id |
3703 |
| Project Name |
Gasometer City, Austria |
| Description |
The Gasometer are four former gas tanks, each of 90,000 m³ storage capacity, built as part of the Vienna municipal gas works Gaswerk Simmering in 1896–1899. They were used from 1899 to 1984 as gas storage tanks. After the changeover from town gas to natural gas between 1969 and 1978, they were no longer used and were shut down. Vienna undertook a remodelling and revitalization of the protected monuments and in 1995 called for ideas for the new use of the structures. The chosen designs by the architects Jean Nouvel (Gasometer A), Coop Himmelblau (Gasometer B), Manfred Wehdorn (Gasometer C) and Wilhelm Holzbauer (Gasometer D) were completed between 1999 and 2001. Each gasometer was divided into several zones for living (apartments in the top), working (offices in the middle floors) and entertainment and shopping (shopping malls in the ground floors). The shopping mall levels in each gasometer are connected to the others by skybridges. The historic exterior wall was conserved. |
| Description of the economic, social and environmental impacts of the project |
The project has been conceived as a sort of self-sufficient microcosm. With the combination of the offices and residences it is intended to generate new ways of living and working in a single area. The project emphasizes the skill with which it have resolved the restoration of the old deposits and the surprise of creating the new building in sharply innovative ways. The group is a prodigious merger between past and future. The spectacle of it, the creation of new housing, commercial areas of recreation and culture, and regeneration of the industrial district turned the Gasometer into the alternative urban center of Vienna. |
| Web links |
https://www.viennadirect.com/sights/gasometer.php |
| Country |
Austria |
| City size |
Metropolis (between 1 and 10 million people) |
