Central Transformer Station
Salurnerstraße 11, 6020 Innsbruck, A
Architecture: UNStudio (1999-2000) Builder-owner: Innsbrucker Kommunalbetriebe AG Open to the public: no Next to the transformer station there is Innsbruck’s first high-rise building, designed by Lois Welzenbacher in 1926/27.
Architecture: UNStudio (1999-2000) Builder-owner: Innsbrucker Kommunalbetriebe AG Open to the public: no Next to the transformer station there is Innsbruck’s first high-rise building, designed by Lois Welzenbacher in 1926/27.
For the Amsterdam UN Studio (Ben van Berkel and Caroline Boss), this was the first international competition they won. The sculpturally carved building boasts an outer skin of black basalt, rising out of an environment of blackened concrete. The interior is, of course, not open to the public, it hosts the transformers and the control centre that are part of the essential infrastructure of the city.
