Workstyle & Lifestyle
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside combines many aspects that elsewhere embody contradictions: career and family, city and countryside, modern lifestyles and health. The Full Life.
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside will unite many generations and lifestyles in one spot. Half of the total project area is reserved for public open spaces with roads, squares, green zones and recreational areas.
The business district and generous retail areas are just as much an integral part of aspern as are the science, research and training centre and the high-quality, individual flats.
aspern will be an environment where people like to live and work – after all, Vienna’s Urban Lakeside is something different: a city within the city, at the heart of Europe, urban and yet surrounded by greenery, with lots of public and open spaces. And the heart of aspern is the lake that links all of its different elements. With its landscaped banks and promenade, it forms the core of the new city and will become the meeting-point for residents and all those who work in aspern.
“An active, modern environment for The Full Life”
aspern scores also with its urban appeal:
• cultural, leisure and sports facilities
• numerous shops, cafés and restaurants
• a city of short distances
• in proximity to the railway stations and airports of Vienna and Bratislava
• U2 Underground line, bus and tram lines
• well laid-out footpaths and bikeways
• a flexible place for individual projects
Milestones for aspern
The former airfield will be transformed into aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside in three major phases.
Starting in 2010, this process will be gradually complemented by traffic and transport links. In the final development stage around 2030, 20,000 persons will be living in aspern, and as many workplaces will have been created.
aspern Vienna’s Urban Lakeside
• covers an area of 2.4 million sq m (roughly equalling the combined 7th and 8th municipal districts of Vienna or 340 football pitches)
• comprises 8,500 housing units for 20,000 residents
• offers 20,000 workplaces: 15,000 of the planned jobs will be in offices and for service providers; 5,000, in production and commercial enterprises
• will be a hub for research, development and education in Vienna
• boasts close-by recreation and leisure areas such as the Danube Wetlands National Park and Danube Island as well as comprehensive networks of footpaths and bikeways
• will be gradually hooked up to the Vienna Underground and regional train system, the international Vienna-Bratislava line and the motorway. In ad