The Vienna Gasometers are four brick gasholders in Simmering, the 11th district of Vienna. The City of Vienna built them from 1896 to 1899 for the municipal gas works to store town gas. The article does not name the original architects. Use ended as the city moved to natural gas, and it stopped in 1984 or 1985.
A 1995 competition led to conversions finished between 1999 and 2001. Jean Nouvel took Gasometer A, Coop Himmelblau took B, Manfred Wehdorn took C and Wilhelm Holzbauer took D. Each gasholder is about 230 feet (70 meters) tall and 197 feet (60 meters) across. Crews gutted the interiors and kept the red-brick walls.
The mayor opened the complex on October 30, 2001. It holds about 800 apartments, student housing, offices, shops, a music hall, a cinema and a municipal archive. Skybridges link the shopping levels. The 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights used the site.
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