| Uniqa Tower | |
| Location Town: | Vienna |
| Location Country: | Austria |
| Status: | Complete |
| Start Date: | October 2001 |
| Completion Date: | June 2004 |
| Opening: | 25. June 2005 |
| Building Type: | modern |
| Height: | 80.7m (264.8feet) |
| Floor Count: | 25 |
| Cost: | 70,04 million euro |
| Floor Area: | 38500m2 |
| Architect: | Heinz Neumann |
| Developer: | UNIQA Immobilien-Projekterrichtungs GmbH |
| Owner: | Uniqa Insurance Group |
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]
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]