Hoch Zwei, Office building in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria.
Hoch Zwei is an office building in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna, rising to about 260 feet (80 m) with a glass and steel facade. It has 23 floors of office and commercial space and stands out as one of the taller buildings in the area near the exhibition grounds.
The building was designed by Henke Schreieck Architekten following an architectural competition and completed in 2008. Its construction was part of a broader effort to redevelop the land around the Prater and the exhibition grounds into a modern office district.
Hoch Zwei sits within the Viertel Zwei business district, which grew around the edge of the Prater. The area has a work-focused character during the day, but the proximity to the park means people often walk through the grounds before or after office hours.
The building sits next to a U2 metro station, so reaching it by public transport is straightforward from most parts of Vienna. For those arriving by car, there is an underground parking garage beneath the building, though public transport is generally the easier option in this part of the city.
The outdoor spaces around the building were designed with large water surfaces that flow into the surrounding parkland, blurring the boundary between the office complex and the green space nearby. This was a deliberate choice by the architects to tie the building into its natural surroundings rather than set it apart from them.
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