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Vienna plans world’s tallest wooden skyscraper

United Kingdom Architecture News - Mar 02, 2015 - 10:01   2671 views

Vienna plans world’s tallest wooden skyscraper

The 84-metre-high wooden skyscraper, which will be built in the Seestadt Aspern area of Vienna, is expected to cost about €60m. Photograph: Rüdiger Lainer and Partner

Architects hail environmental benefits of HoHo project – but the city’s fire brigade has concerns.A wooden skyscraper that Austrian architects say will be the tallest of its kind in the world is to be built in Vienna next year........Continue Reading

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