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Administration: Cornelia Dohr, Susanne Dohr, Michaela Possanner
Architectural team 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
Artistic director Peter Pakesch until 09/2015, Barbara Steiner until 12/2021, Andreja Hribernik since 01/2023
BIX electronic display skin Realities:United, Berlin
Building research Markus Zechner, Graz
Building services HL-Technik, TB Pickl, TB Köstenbauer and Sixl, lighting Kress and Adams, Cologne
Client City of Graz Kunsthaus Graz AG, Griesgasse 11, A-8020 Graz
Construction coordination Robert Gobli
Competition design Peter Cook, Colin Fournier with Niels Jonkhans, Mathis Osterhag, Marcos Cruz, Nicola Haines, Karim Hamza, Anja Leonhäuser, Jamie Norden
Competition April 2000, start of construction 12.7.2001
Designers spacelab cook/fournier (Peter Cook, Colin Fournier)
Exhibition space 2,500 m2 (incl. 250 m2 event space, event space 280 m2 Camera Austria exhibition)
Financing Federal Government, Province, City
Fire protection officer Gerhard Düh, Vienna, construction physics Dr. Pfeiler GmbH, Graz
Gross floor area 13,100 m2 (incl. underground car park)
Lessor Bank Austria Leasing GmbH, Opernring 21, A-1040 Vienna
Number of acrylic glass panels outside 1068, size up to 2m x 3m, 20mm thick, each individually three-dimensionally shaped, held by approx. 6000 individual hinged holding points
Number of acrylic glass panels inside 185 (size up to 2m x 3m, 8mm thick, each individually three-dimensionally shaped, held by approx. 1500 individual hinged holding points)
Number of Nozzles 16 (1 Nozzle is used for smoke extraction, 1 serves as a view of the Graz landmark, the clock tower, 14 Nozzles are used for daylight and artificial light supply on the upper exhibition level)
Partners Architect Architektur Consult, Graz (Peyker, Domenig, Eisenköck), Structural Engineer Bollinger und Grohmann, Frankfurt/M
Planning, general planning ARGE Kunsthaus
Project management Kunsthaus Graz AG/Hochbauamt Stadt Graz (Ernst Pogöschnik, Andreas Blass, Josef Spindler)
Project management Hans Lechner GmbH, Vienna (Hans Lechner, Sabine Liebenau)
Start of construction, laying of foundation stone 28.2.2002, completion 27.9.2003 (opening)
Soil mechanics Reinhard Pötscher, Graz, Surveying Rinner
Traffic planning Kaufmann-Kriebernegg, Graz, museology Bogner Cultural Consulting, Vienna
User Landesmuseum Joanneum GmbH, Raubergasse 10, A-8010 Graz
Useful area 11,100 m2
Underground parking 146 cars (company: Kastner und Öhler)
Weight of the Bubble 3.9 million kg, of which steel construction 225,000 kg