MVRDV won the competition for Vienna's Turm mit Teille

Vienna - The development company BAI has announced the winning design from the architectural competition for a mixed-use tower in the vicinity of the famous Vienna Gasometers - "Turm mit Teile (Tower with Belt)." The Dutch firm MVRDV won the competition. Other participants included Dominique Perrault, Bevk Perović architects, Delugan Meissl, Sauerbruch Hutton, and Nieto Sobejano AR-quitectos.
MVRDV will collaborate with Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure Wien (structural solutions) and Cody Consulting (energy and sustainability) on the tower project, which is slated to start construction in 2016. The tower will be 110 meters tall and is notable for its lowest section, which allows for shading of neighboring plots for a maximum of two hours a day due to its ten twisted floors. Winy Maas (55) commented on the sunlight condition, saying, "thanks to this limitation, we created an unprecedented tower," and added, "A tower with a slender belt - isn't that a classic definition of beauty?"
MVRDV did not utilize the trapezoidal plot completely, which allowed the original height regulation of 75 meters to be changed to 110 m. The tower has a square floor plan and the net usable area reaches 80% of the total floor area. The façade will allow for natural ventilation. The basement of the tower will accommodate parking for up to 110 cars. A metro station is located in the immediate vicinity of the building.