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

Interview with Stefan Forster

Home > Magazin > Interviews > Stefan Forster About Urban Development in Frankfurt am Main Architect Stefan Forster in ConversationStefan Forster founded the Frankfurt-based architectural firm Stefan Forster GmbH over thirty years ago. Together with his partner Florian Kraft and now around 60 employees, he actively follows and shapes urban development throughout Germany. His work focuses

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

Facade Greening on High-Rise Buildings

High sealing rates due to inner-city densification are increasingly having a negative effect on the microclimate in large German cities. The consequences are a deterioration in air quality due to increased emissions and a lack of green spaces, as well as sometimes extreme inner-city temperatures. In so-called urban heat islands, it can be up to

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Eden Tower Frankfurt Receives Plants

The Belgian real estate developer Immobel has started the vertical greening of its Eden Tower. With a height of almost 100 metres and with 28 floors, the building, located in the European District of Frankfurt, Germany, is one of Germany’s highest leafy residential towers. Now that the facade structure has been completed, the tower is

EDEN Tower

Eden Tower is a 98 meters (321 feet) high residential tower at the entrance to Frankfurt's European District, and when it is completed in 2022 it will have a fully green facade. A realization and ideas competition was held for the approximately 13,700 square meters (147,465 square feet) site, the former Telenorma site. The Eden