Meliá Hotel to Debut in Austria

Meliá Hotels is set to debut in Austria with the opening of Meliá Vienna this month. Located in the Donau City (DC) Tower 1, the 253-room hotel will feature designs by Parisian architect Dominique Perrault.
DC Tower 1 is Austria’s tallest skyscraper, a clearly structured, minimalistic monolith resembling a geometric waterfall. The building combines aesthetic architectural design, modern construction, and functionality that fulfill the energy and sustainability requirements of a green building as defined by the European commission.  

Meliá Vienna will fill 17 of the building’s 58 floors. The interiors reference the waterfall motif with geometric shapes on the bedheads, bathroom walls, and stone tiles. The floating spiral staircase in the lobby connects three floors between the lobby restaurant and the grand ballroom on the first floor. 

“This landmark in Vienna will play a key role when it comes to our expansion and further increasing our degree of recognition on the German-speaking market,” says André Gerondeau, executive vice president hotels for Meliá, “which, with its 24 hotels, is Meliá Hotels International’s second biggest market in Europe after Spain.”