Millennium Tower (Vienna)
The office tower Millennium Tower Handelskai 94-96 in the 20th district of Vienna Brigittenau was with a height of 171 m ( building fabric ) and a total height of 202 m (incl. roof ) until the completion of DC Tower 1 is the tallest office building in Austria. At 50 floors it comprises a gross floor area of 47,200 sqm, of which 38,500 m² are used as office space. The remaining area is generally accessible to the 2nd floor and is among other things, for a shopping center, restaurants and a multiplex cinema (UCI ) are used.
Architecture
The shape of the tower is formed by two entwined fully glazed cylinder, which is supported by a steel composite construction. It was designed Millennium Tower by the architects Gustav Peichl, Boris Podrecca and Rudolf F. Weber. Construction company was ARGE Habau - voestalpine - MCE.
The construction was carried out in the years 1997 to 1999.
Tenant
The Millennium Tower around 120 companies are rented from different sectors, including large international companies such as Xerox, looking after its Eastern European operations from here. Other tenants include, inter alia, Cirquent, Trivadis, Bacardi - Martini, Clerical Medical, ENI, D- Link, electric Kagerer that serve their customers in eastern Austria from this location, or Cisco.
Builder Georg Stumpf sold on 25 July 2003 the Millennium Tower in Vienna including associated Millennium City to the Hamburg- based issuing house MPC ( Münchmeyer Petersen Capital). The purchase price was 360 million euros, 15 times the annual income of 24.5 million euros (2002 ) of the Millennium City is almost, which is next to the offices in the tower and from a shopping mall, residential buildings and the largest theater center in Austria. Taking into account the cost of 145 million euros was a profit of 215 million euros.
MCN
During the construction also has its own internal telecommunications infrastructure has been built, which then occurred the MCN Millennium Communication Network AG as telephone and Internet provider. Through shared use of lines of the Telekom Austria this could also serve as Austria -wide provider. However, since MCN ran into financial difficulties in 2000, the existing network in 2002 was taken over by inode.