Wohnpark Neue Donau, Residential complex and cinema in Kaisermühlen, Austria.
Wohnpark Neue Donau is a residential complex in Kaisermühlen, Vienna, built between 1993 and 1998 to Harry Seidler's design. It stands on a concrete deck over the eight-lane Donauufer Autobahn A22, with 533 apartments in seven blocks set at angles to each other so that every unit keeps a view of the Danube. The complex also includes community rooms, garages, a kindergarten and a cinema complex.
The site was reclaimed by decking over the eight-lane A22 motorway along 2,150 metres, a project tied to Vienna's failed Expo 95 bid, which voters rejected in May 1991. In 1993 city councillor Hannes Swoboda asked Harry Seidler, who had received Vienna's Golden Medal in 1989, to masterplan the area. Seidler designed the entire complex, built 1993–1998 by ARWAG with BAI and SEG, and it was the only one of his masterplans realised one-to-one.
The complex was built by ARWAG, a developer owned mainly by the City of Vienna and Bank Austria, with BAI and SEG each holding 30 percent. This mix produced subsidised rental flats alongside subsidised and privately financed owner-occupied flats, continuing Vienna's municipal housing tradition. The neighbouring Goethehof and Marschallhof, with its three residential towers, stand directly behind the complex.
The complex runs along the left bank of the Neue Donau on Rudolf-Nurejew-Promenade, reached by U1 at Kaisermühlen VIC station at the end of the Reichsbrücke. The seven blocks stand at an angle to one another so that each keeps a free view of the water. The Danube Island and its paths lie directly across the water.
The complex sits on a concrete deck built over the eight-lane Donauufer Autobahn A22, whose Kaisermühlentunnel was covered with hollow-box slabs along 2,150 metres. The land was freed up after Vienna's 1991 referendum rejected hosting Expo 1995 with Budapest, yet the waterfront development stayed in the city's STEP 94 plan.
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