Home > Magazin > Interviews > Volker Teige Frankfurt's ECB: A superlative Skyscraper Facility Manager Volker Teige in Conversation The new European Central Bank in Frankfurt's Ostend district is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular high-rises in the Main metropolis. During the day, the sunlight is reflected in the twisted facade; at night, the high-rise
Home > Magazin > Interviews > André Friedel Fit for the Future: BIM Use in High-Rise Construction Architect André Friedel from Drees & Sommer in Conversation Complex high-rise buildings require perfect planning. BIM (Building Information Modeling) provides a remedy here and enables efficient and digitized collaboration between the various trades involved in construction. However, the
Main Triangle is an office building directly opposite the ECB in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen. The design planning was done by Fritz Novotny. The complex, consisting of two building parts, was completed in 2008. Particularly striking is the atrium roof made of glass and steel, which spans the freely accessible inner courtyard. The Bilfinger construction company was responsible for
The Docks is an ensemble of buildings designed by Meixner Schlüter Wendt in the East Port of Frankfurt am Main and was inspired by the overseas containers in the cargo port opposite. It is located not far from Hanauer Landstraße and within walking distance of the European Central Bank and Hafenpark Quartier. The project developer
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In Frankfurt's Ostend, in the direct vicinity of the European Central Bank, a new modern urban quarter is currently being built, the Hafenpark Quartier, consisting of several building components and two luxurious residential towers. At the invitation of Ballwanz Immobilien, SKYLINE ATLAS was allowed to visit the construction site of HPQ Living in advance and
Züblin is a construction company based in Stuttgart. It was founded in 1898 by the Swiss engineer Eduard Züblin and is now the number 1 in German building and civil engineering. It is a member of the globally active STRABAG SE. The company currently comprises around 14,000 employees and is characterized above all by intelligent
City East (in German: City Ost) is a mixed-use development area around Frankfurt's East Station (Ostbahnhof), which is, like the Financial District, not formally precisely defined. City East is located in the Ostend (lit. "East End") district at the intersection of an established residential development in the western part and a predominantly commercial part on
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The Eurotower in Frankfurt's Financial District has received LEED gold certification for existing properties. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a green building certification for real estate. Both the building performance, e.g. energy consumption, water consumption, as well as the building operation with purchasing and disposal strategies as well as technical operation. Alexandra
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The B&L Group (B&L Gruppe in German) from Hamburg is planning a 17-storey office building as part of its Harbor Park Quarter development (HPQ; in German: Hafenpark Quartier) on the Hanauer Landstrasse street, which will mark the beginning of the district. On a floor space of approximately 10,500 square meters (113,000 square feet), more than
Eurotheum is a 110-meter high-rise and was designed by the Offenbach-based architecture firm Novotny Mähner Assoziierte. The high-rise is on Junghofstrasse and was completed in 1999. Eurotheum was built at the same time as the neighboring MAIN TOWER. Both skyscrapers share an underground car park. Eurotheum is a mixed-use tower: it houses both office space,
The Eurotower is a skyscraper in the Financial District by architect Richard Heil. The Euro Tower is located at the corner of Kaiserstrasse, Neue Mainzer Strasse and Willy-Brandt-Platz. The characteristic Euro sculpture in front of the Eurotower indicates the importance of the building as the headquarters of the European Central Bank from 1998 to 2014.
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A prominent section of the Eastern Harbor in Frankfurt (called "Molenkopf" in German) is to be built with a hotel tower called Waterfront. For the new construction, an architectural competition took place in which nine architectural firms had participated. The jury has now announced the winner for the construction of the Molenkopf: The architectural firm
Below the street level, Japan Center has four basement levels, above all an underground car park. Japan Center itself consists of a transparent base zone. The first floor was designed as a meeting space for events and offers a total of four conference rooms that can accommodate up to 360 people. On the second floor
The City of Frankfurt is using the 2022 High-Rise Master Plan to express its political opinion on how and where new skyscrapers are to be built in the future. Using this instrument investors and clients can better orient themselves. The planning department is currently working on updating the 2000 High-Rise Master Plan, which was last
May
The Frankfurt planning representative, Mike Josef (SPD) intends to allow new high-rise developments in Frankfurt only in clearly defined areas. As is apparent from various press publications in the last few days, "speculation" is to be counteracted. The new high-rise plan, which is to be presented next year, is intended to cement appropriate development requirements.
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