#6 Gasometer City, Vienna Austria

One of the most successful residential reuse projects is Gasometer City, in Vienna Austria. Four immense disused gasometers were successfully revamped in the late ‘90s and have since become infamous in the world of adaptive reuse.

Since the end of the 1900s, four teams of star architects have been working on converting four 112-year-old gasometers into a new urban complex.  

The Gasometers have developed a village character all their own and are a city within a city. A true sense of community has developed, and both a large physical housing community (of tenants) as well as an active virtual internet community (Gasometer Community) have formed. I found that numerous theses and dissertation in urban planning, journalism, and architecture have been written about this adaptive reuse property. 

Four indoor facilities include a music hall (capacity 2000–3000 people), movie theater, student dorms, municipal archive, and so on. There are about 800 apartments (two thirds within the historic brick walls) with 1600 regular tenants, as well as about 70 student apartments with 250 students in residence.