Technical Information

awarding authority City of Graz Kunsthaus Graz AG, Griesgasse 11, A-8020 Graz
financing Bund, Land, Stadt
lessor Bank Austria Leasing GmbH, Opernring 21, A-1040 Vienna
project management Kunsthaus Graz AG/Hochbauamt Stadt Graz (Ernst Pogöschnik, Andreas Blass, Josef Spindler)
project supervision Hans Lechner GmbH, Wien (Hans Lechner, Sabine Liebenau)
user Landesmuseum Joanneum GmbH, Raubergasse 10, A-8010 Graz
artistic director Peter Pakesch until 09/2015, Barbara Steiner until 12/2021, Andreja Hribernik since 01/2023
competition design Peter Cook, Colin Fournier with Niels Jonkhans, Mathis Osterhag, Marcos Cruz, Nicola Haines, Karim Hamza, Anja Leonhäuser, Jamie Norden
design, overall management ARGE Kunsthaus
designers spacelab cook/fournier (Peter Cook, Colin Fournier)
partner architect Architektur Consult, Graz (Peyker, Domenig, Eisenköck)
structural engineering Bollinger und Grohmann, Frankfurt/M
team of architects Dietmar Ott (project manager), Niels Jonkhans (design architect), Gernot Stangl, Sigrid Brell-Cokcan (3D-engineering), Gerhard Eder (technical coordination), Werner Riedl (construction supervisor),
architects Johanna Digruber, Daniela Fritz, Herbert Hazmuka, Hans Kaponig, Eduard Kölbl, Peter Löcker, Florian Lohberger, Ernst Plank, Herwig Stern, Bernd Priesching, Christian Probst,
administration Cornelia Dohr, Susanne Dohr, Michaela Possanner, BIX
electronic display skin Realities:United, Berlin
technical services HL-Technik, TB Pickl, TB Köstenbauer und Sixl, light Kress und Adams, Cologne
fire consultant Gerhard Düh, Vienna, building physics Dr. Pfeiler GmbH, Graz, soil mechanics Reinhard Pötscher, Graz
surveying Vermessung Rinner
traffic concept Kaufmann-Kriebernegg, Graz, museology Bogner Cultural Consulting, Vienna
building research Markus Zechner, Graz
construction coordination Robert Gobli
competition April 2000
start of construction July 12, 2001
laying of the cornerstone February 28, 2002
completion September 27, 2003 (opening event)
net area 11,100 m2
exhibition area 2,500 m2 (incl. 250 m2 event space, 280 m2 Camera Austria exhibition)
gross floor area 13,100 m2 (incl. underground car park),
underground parking spaces 146 passenger cars (user: Kastner und Öhler), number of acrylic panels on the outside 1068, size up to 2m x 3m, 20mm thick, each individually three-dimensionally warped, held by about 6,000 single simply supported hold points
number of acrylic panels on the inside 185 (size up to 2m x 3m, 8mm thick, each individually three-dimensionally warped, held by about 1,500 single simply supported hold points
number of nozzles 16 (one nozzle should provide for smoke evacuation in case of fire, one offers a view of the hallmark of Graz, the clock tower, 14 nozzles provide for daylight and artificial light sources on the upper exhibition space)
weight of the bubble 3.9 million kg, thereof 225,000 kg steel structure.

Kunsthaus Graz

Lendkai 1
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24th/25th December 2023