Last Saturday evening, on my way home from a shopping mall, I passed by the modern buildings of Donau City and marvelled once again at the DC Tower. With its height of 250m it is a really tall building for Austrian standards... and in fact it is Austria's tallest skyscraper.
The 250m tall DC Tower, designed by French architect Dominique Perrault, is the highest building in Vienna (and Austria). After slightly more than three years, the DC Tower is outwardly complete, while works inside the building are still going on. Most of the available floor space will be used for offices. The upper floors will be used for sky lofts, while the first 15 floors will house a four-star hotel. There will also be a restaurant in one of the top floors.
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Here´s another modern building on the banks of the Danube (but in another district) - the Millennium Tower, completed in 1999 for the coming of the third millennium. For more photos of this skycraper please click here and here.
The Millennium Tower is a 171m high commercial and residential building on the banks of the Danube, designed by the architects Gustav Peichl, Boris Podrecca and Rudolf Weber. The tower is the focal point of the complex "Millennium City" and was completed in 1999 for the coming of the third millennium.
