T-Center

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The T-Center is an office building in the Sankt Marx section of Landstraße, the 3rd district of Vienna. It was built between the years 2002 and 2004 following the designs of Austrian architect Günther Domenig. Due to the unconventional form and the use of unfinished concrete surfaces the T-Center rapidly gathered attention beyond the city boundaries, however the public discussed the building quite controversially.

Günther Domenig and the design team received the following awards for the T-Center:

Otto Wagner Städtebaupreis (2004)
Österreichischer Staatspreis for Architecture (2006)
The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for the best new global design (2006)

The T-Center has an effective area of 119,000 m² of office space for around 3,000 employees, with a gross area of 134,000 m². With a length of 255 meters, the building’s height reaches 60 meters.

Fiat lux!

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Saint-Étienne de Metz is a historic Roman Catholic cathedral in Metz (Capital of Lorraine/France). The construction of the Gothic cathedral began in 1220 within the walls of an Ottonian basilica dating from the 10th century. The work was completed around 1520 and the new cathedral was consecrated on 11 April 1552.

Saint-Étienne de Metz has one of the highest naves in the world. The cathedral is nicknamed the Good Lord’s Lantern, displaying the largest expanse of stained glass in the world with 6,496 m2. Those stained glass windows include works by Gothic and Renaissance master glass makers Hermann von Münster, Theobald of Lixheim, and Valentin Bousch and romantic Charles-Laurent Maréchal, tachist Roger Bissière, cubist Jacques Villon, and modernist Marc Chagall.

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Metz 2014