Gasometer, Shopping and entertainment complex in Simmering district, Vienna, Austria.
Gasometer is a shopping and cultural complex in Vienna's Simmering district, formed from four brick towers originally built between 1896 and 1899 to store gas for the city. Four architects transformed these 70-meter-high structures in the late 1990s into a multifunctional space containing residential units, offices, shops, restaurants, and event halls, while preserving the original exterior walls.
The towers were built between 1896 and 1899 and stored town gas for Vienna's households and street lighting until 1984. After the gas works closed, the structures were converted in the late 1990s by four different architects into a mixed residential and commercial center.
The name Gasometer refers to the gasholders that once stood inside these brick shells. Since the 1999–2001 conversion, the four cylinders have housed a music hall, a movie theatre, a student dormitory and a municipal archive, with shopping levels linked by skybridges. The complex appeared in the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights.
The site is open daily and offers over 30 shops, a cinema, restaurants, and event halls to explore. The U3 metro line stops directly at Gasometer station, making it easy to access the complex and reach other parts of Vienna.
The four towers were designed by Jean Nouvel (A), Coop Himmelb(l)au (B), Manfred Wehdorn (C) and Wilhelm Holzbauer (D). A fifth gasometer, a telescopic holder with a 150,000 m³ capacity, stood south of the four preserved buildings; damaged in 1945, it was demolished in 1981. The site is recorded as contaminated land W18.
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