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Apr

Construction in Existing Buildings: Inside Frankfurt’s Bienenkorbhaus

The Bienenkorbhaus at the Konstablerwache in Frankfurt am Main was built in 1954 and was one of the first high-rise buildings in downtown Frankfurt at the time. It was built by the Frankfurter Sparkasse, according to the architectural designs of Johannes Krahn. The name Bienenkorbhaus comes from the logo of the Sparkasse at the time,

Double Interview with Christian Olaf Schmidt and Marco Verardi

Home > Magazin > Interviews > Christian Olaf Schmidt/Marco Verardi Architecture - Smart Buildings: Challenges and Opportunities Christian Olaf Schmidt and Marco Verardi in Conversation The construction and real estate industry is currently undergoing a major transformation in the area of digitalization and sustainability. From planning and construction to operation and maintenance, digital solutions such

Atreeum

The Atreeum office ensemble is being built on the former site of the Glasbau Hahn company, between Hanauer Landstraße and the container handling area in Frankfurt's Ostend district. OFB-Projektentwicklung is building the property on the 5,000-square-meter site by 2024, designed by Frankfurt-based architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt. The new building complex, which is described by the environmental

St Martin Tower

St Martin Tower is an office building completed in 2015 in Frankfurt's City West. It is complemented by the Wing corner building. The high-rise offers 16,350 square meters on 18 floors, for which a full service is provided by a concierge team.The building, which was constructed by Immo Hansa Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH as the developer, was

Maintor Panorama

The Maintor Panorama, designed by Christoph Mäckler, forms the new Main Gate directly on the banks of the Main. In addition to a high-quality natural stone façade, the 64-meter skyscraper also offers an inviting two-story lobby, five corner offices per floor and spectacular views of the Main River. Together with the WINX Riverside Tower and

The Move

Siemens AG is building an office ensemble in the Gateway Gardens urban district that will house the company's new Frankfurt branch and provide external tenants with around 20,000 square meters of flexible office space in two buildings. A topping-out ceremony was held in June 2022 for the project, which is expected to be completed by

THE STACKS

In the Kaiserlei district of Offenbach, THE STACKS is a new building that combines modern offices with communal and event areas and strives for special standards of sustainable management. The office project at Strahlenberger Strasse 127, in the immediate vicinity of the Main River, comprises approximately 24,900 square metres of gross floor space and is scheduled for

01

Jul

Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Börsenplatz Eschborn

In the direct vicinity of Frankfurt, the starting signal was given for the quarter development Börsenplatz Eschborn in Eschborn on Wednesday, June 29. The building ensemble consists of three independent construction phases. In total, the large-scale project will comprise around 52,000 square meters. A total of 1,000 parking spaces are already available in the parking

16

May

New Office Campus Flow in Gateway Gardens

Since 2019, a new office campus with a total area of approximately 37,000 square meters is being built with the Flow in Gateway Gardens at Frankfurt Airport. SKYLINE ATLAS visited the construction site and met the CEO Ralf-Jörg Kadenbach of the operating real estate group EUROPA-CENTER AG.Work on the three-dimensional façade was already completed at

Sustainability and Digitization

The topic of Sustainability is also becoming increasingly important in the construction and real estate industry. Materiality in particular, but also digitality, are playing an increasingly important role. The primary aim is to minimize energy and resource consumption, reduce land use, and keep the impact of a building on nature and the environment as low

21

Feb

Global Tower Frankfurt – Construction Work almost completed

The Global Tower in the middle of Frankfurt's financial district is nearing completion after around 3.5 years of intensive renovation work. Since summer 2018, the former Commerzbank high-rise building at Neue Mainzer Straße 32 - 36 has been completely gutted, modernized and thus made suitable for the demands of today's office world. After the European

07

Apr

Half of ONE pre-leased

The real estate project developer CA Immo has signed a  10-year lease for around 3,000 square meters (32,291 square feet) of rental space in the ONE high-rise development with the international game company Cloud Imperium Games Ltd. The 190 meter (623 feet) high landmark building is currently being built by the beginning of 2022 in

26

Nov

FOUR Frankfurt Receives DGNB Certificate for Dismantling

Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important topic not only in society, but also in the real estate industry. The German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) has been awarding certificates for many years as one of various providers that are intended to confirm sustainable development in the real estate sector. As a rule, these green building certificates

What is a certification?

Climate change and scarcity of resources require architects and the construction industry to rethink their approach. This is why more and more “green buildings” are being built, which are developed under the guiding principle of sustainability. For decades there have been various certifications for evaluating the sustainability of building products and structures. The best-known green

01

Oct

Architecture Competition for “Millennium Area” Started in Frankfurt

The real estate company CA Immo, in cooperation with the City of Frankfurt, has launched an architecture competition for the so-called “Millennium Area” in Frankfurt's European District. The aim of the competition is to develop a mixed-use building ensemble with two high-rise buildings and a perimeter block development with a total gross floor area of

Deka Bank Frankfurt

In 2022 the Frankfurt project developer Lang & Cie. finished a new building in Frankfurt-Niederrad. Modern office space is built on 10 floors on a gross floor area of around 56,000 square meters. The architecture was created by holger meyer architektur. The tenant of the new office property is Deka Bank Frankfurt. Large glass facades on

Riverside Office Tower Wayv

In new Harbor of Offenbach, the office tower Wayv (former project name: MAIN GATE EAST) will be built from 2020 onwards. For further planning, project developer Eyemaxx Real Estate AG and OPG Offenbacher Projektentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, a Stadtwerke Offenbach Group company, held an architecture competition in the early summer of 2019. In addition to the Eyemaxx

18

Oct

Foundation stone laid for high-rise ONE

The Austrian project developer CA Immo today laid the foundation stone for the ONE skyscraper project near the MesseTurm. Together with representatives of the City of Frankfurt, the hotel lessee NH Hotel Group, the architects Meurer Generalplaner and the shell manufacturer Hochtief Building, the foundation stone was laid for the office and hotel tower ONE.

17

Oct

Buyers found for the Global Tower

The asset manager HANSAINVEST Real Assets GmbH from Hamburg has now acquired a 50% stake in the Global Tower project development from GEG German Estate Group AG. Upon completion of the project in late summer 2020, she will acquire the building in full for one of her special funds. The entire project development, rental and

ONE

ONE (former project name: Tower One) is a high-rise building completed in summer 2022 near the trade fair grounds at the entrance to the Europaviertel. The design is by MEURER ARCHITEKTUR + STADTPLANUNG, and the project development was carried out by CA Immo. The development of the high-rise building primarily followed two guidelines: on the one

Building Certification

In the real estate industry, certification systems are gaining increasing attention, whether the buildings are new or recent renovations. Global developments such as climate change, lack of resources and demographic changes have made sustainability more important in the construction sector. In order to promote these trends, a multitude of different certifications have been developed for