Millennium Tower
Two fully glazed cylinders clasped together shoot 202 metres above Brigittenau — Austria's second-tallest building, built at 2.5 floors a week to meet the millennium deadline.
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Designed by Gustav Peichl, Boris Podrecca, and Rudolf Weber, this 50-floor steel-composite tower was completed in 1999 as the centrepiece of the Millennium City complex. Its construction pace — an average of 2.5 floors per week — remains the real engineering story behind the glass curtain wall.
What to look for
- The double-cylinder silhouette: two interlocking fully glazed drums held by a steel composite frame
- The Millennium City base: shopping floors, restaurants, and a UCI multiplex cinema occupy the lower levels around the tower's footprint
- The address at Handelskai 94–96 in the 20th district (Brigittenau), where the tower anchors the Millennium City complex
Reach it via U6 Handelskai station in the 20th district (Brigittenau); the shopping and cinema levels are publicly accessible without entering the office floors.
Millennium Tower is one of 39 sights worth the detour in Vienna, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Vienna pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Vienna
- Schönbrunn PalaceHabsburg emperors were born here, ruled from here, and died here — 1,441 rooms of Baroque ambition spanning 300 years.
- St. Stephen's CathedralA cathedral consecrated in 1147 as crusaders prepared to march — and built on top of a Roman burial ground that nobody knew was there until 2000.
- BelvederePrince Eugene built this summer palace on Ottoman campaign winnings — it is now three art museums inside a World Heritage Baroque garden.
- Hofburg PalaceSeven centuries of Austrian rulers worked from this address — the current president still does.
- Vienna State OperaThe first major building on Vienna's Ring Road, and the house where Vienna Philharmonic musicians earn their seats.
- Ernst-Happel-StadionBuilt for workers' sport in 1931, this 50,865-seat bowl also served as a transit prison for over 1,000 Jewish deportees in 1939.