ORBI-Tower, Vienna Building, Austrian Project, Design, Images, Competition Winners
ORBI-Tower
High-Rise Office Development Vienna ? design by Zechner & Zechner, Architects
16 Nov 2017 + 30 Jun 2015
ORBI-Tower in Vienna
Design: Zechner & Zechner ZT GmbH
Location: Vienna, Austria
New world of work ? the ORBI tower Vienna, designed by Zechner & Zechner architects has been completed

Photos: www.pierer.net
After winning the 2013 architectural competition, construction started in 2015, and the office tower was completed in 2017. The project developers were Wiener Stadtwerke Holding AG, and STC – Swiss Town Consult AG.

The ORBI Tower is located in Vienna?s ?TownTown? urban development zone on the fringes of the Prater, a local recreation area and the green axis of the Danube Canal. It takes seven minutes to travel from the 115 m high tower to St. Stephen?s Square (Stephansplatz) by urban transport. The airport is just a 12 minute carried away. The tower boasts 21 600 sqm of office space for rent on 26 floors.
The project provides a tower rising from a trilobate, an orbiform, which together with the existing neighbouring tower forms a gate-like close to the TownTown-Piazza while at the same time also acts as a salient head in the southeast direction. One broadside of the trilobate points towards the Piazza in the direction of the entrance to the underground station thus marking the main access to the building and defining an attractive forecourt. One narrow ...