Waagner-Biro glass company saved | DiePresse.com



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Despite a number of prestigious projects – the Berlin Reichstag dome, the Louvre, the British Museum – the long-standing company took a nosedive in 2018. Zeman Stahl is now the new Austrian owner.

Vienna Depending on the position of the sun, the most dazzling variations of light rain down inside the Louvre in Abu Dhabi. Waagner-Biro stands behind the internationally famous dome designed by the architect Jean Nouvel. The Viennese glass and steel company is famous for the technical implementation of architectural masterpieces made of glass. So she knows the light and the shadow. Due to problems with then-steel construction subsidiary SBE, the 160-year-old company stumbled and went bankrupt in 2018. The bridge and stage business has already taken over.

Now Zeman Stahl is buying into the glass and steel business, thus saving the prestige of the traditional company that built the Reichstag dome in Berlin, the roof of the British Museum in London and Hangar 7 at Salzburg Airport. The cover of the Cour Visconti at the Louvre Paris with a wave-shaped sail was also made by Waagner-Biro.

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