Comprehensive construction measures for greater efficiency and effectiveness.
Building type
Hospital
Scope of services
Architectural services in consortium, overall co-ordination
Standort
Vienna (AT)
Region
National
Client
City of Vienna – Republic of Austria, represented by VÖEST ALPINE Medizintechnik Ges.m.b.H.
Total project costs
€ 2,030 million
Projektstart
1965
Completion period
1965-1992
Gross floor area
600.000 m²
Concentrated volumes for shorter distances.
Vienna General Hospital is one of the biggest and most important university clinics in Europe. In keeping with the taste of its time of construction, it was erected as a compact large-scale hospital with two concentrated main volumes, which not only shortened circulation distances but also facilitated internal organisation.
A building for better medical care.
Until then, Vienna’s prime hospital had been a combination of scattered clinics, some with buildings dating back to the 18th century. The new structure made it possible to combine these buildings and to concentrate all medical services in one architectural complex.
