Home > Magazin > Interviews > Jürgen Engel Giving identity to a skyline Architect Jürgen Engel talks about the Central Business Tower and other high-rise buildings in Frankfurt Jürgen Engel and his architectural firm KSP Engel have left their mark on the skyline of Frankfurt am Main like few other architects. The 18 high-rise projects
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After more than twenty years of joint partnership under the name Cyrus Moser Architekten, Oliver Cyrus and Andreas Moser will continue to run two independent architectural firms from April 2022. Since its founding in 2000, the office, which today has more than 40 employees, has planned and realized hundreds of joint projects, including well-known high-rise
Feb
Frankfurt's banking district continues to grow. Construction work will begin this year on the new Central Business Tower at the intersection of Neue Mainzer Strasse and Junghofstrasse. The plans for the high-rise are older and were drawn up by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten in 2001, but due to financial difficulties, including those of the then
The Cube is an office building in Eschborn that is used by the Deutsche Börse Group (Deutsche Börse AG - lit. the German Stock Exchange operator). With a height of 87.4 meters (287 feet), it is one of the tallest office buildings in the Eschborn South Area. The building bears its name for a good
WestendDuo is a 96 meter (315 feet) high office tower on Bockenheimer Landstrasse in the Westend district. The property consists of a twin tower, and the facade is giving the building a shimmering texture. The WestendDuo has a gross floor area of 32,700 square meters (351,980 square feet), which is spread over 26 upper floors
Taunusanlage 11 is a 75 meter (246 feet) high office tower in the Financial District with views of the Wallanlagen. The office building stands on a prominent plot of land on the corner of the streets Mainzer Landstrasse and Taunusanlage, at the extreme corner of the Bahnhofsviertel. The 16-storey office building was built by the
The JW Marriott Hotel Frankfurt is located in a high-rise building built in 2009 with a height of 96 meters (315 feet) near the Hauptwache square. The building was originally built for office purposes and then converted into a hotel. This fact also explains why, for example, the entrance area is relatively cramped for a
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The area of the former police headquarters in Frankfurt (top left in the picture), which has not been developed for a long time, is to be rebuilt. For many years there was a dispute between the State of Hesse and the City of Frankfurt about the project. The property is currently owned by the project
The Garden Tower is an approximately 127 meter (417 feet) high office tower in Frankfurt's financial district. It was built between 1973 and 1976 for the Hessische Landesbank (Helaba) and was then known as the Helaba high-rise. The skyscraper was originally designed by Novotny Mähner Assoziierte and was one of the first skyscrapers in the
Jun
The architect competition for the planned new builds on the campus of the Bundesbank’s Frankfurt Central Office has come to a close. A jury of 13, made up of renowned architects and representatives from the Bundesbank and the City of Frankfurt, concluded two days of deliberations by selecting six prize winners and awarding two honourable
At the intersection of Neue Mainzer Strasse and Junghofstrasse, a new skyscraper is to be built. The plans for the skyscraper are from the past and originated in the year 2001. The architectural design included an approximately 197 meters (646 feet) tall office building designed by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten (at the time known as
In the Gateway Gardens development area, the Flow by EUROPA-CENTER is being developed as an office tower with 15 storeys. The architecture was created by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten from Frankfurt. The projects consists of two parts, of which the smallest will be built by 2019. However, it is not possible to say exactly when
Nextower is a high-rise building standing at a height of 136 meters (446 feet). The building is part of the Palaisquartier complex, which was built between 2004 and 2010 on the Grosse Eschenheimer Strasse in the city center. Palaisquartier consists of four buildings: a reduced reconstruction of the baroque Thurn und Taxis, the Nextower office
On the site of the former AfE Tower at Senckenberganlage, a 106-meter (348 feet) office tower called Senckenberg-Turm (lit. "Senckenberg Tower") was completed in early 2022. For this, the project developer Groß & Partner had issued an architectural competition from which a winner was chosen at the end of September 2017. The winner of the architectural
SOLID Home is a new residential tower in the European District featuring 21 floors and about 191 units. SOLID Home compromises an underground car park and is centrally between the Frankfurt exhibition center and the Central Station. The design for the high-rise building comes from KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten for the cascade-shaped residential building, whose
The project developers OFB and Groß + Partner have jointly developed a new building for the software company SAP. Construction of the 43 meter high office building in Eschborn started in 2017. Since its completion in May 2018, the SAP building has a gross floor area of 11,780 square meters and a rental area of
160 Park View is located in the immediate vicinity of Goethe University and is a new type of double tower with hotel and residential use. In the 160 Park View project, an existing office building called Hochhaus am Park with 26 floors is being gutted and repositioned. Above a common base, two towers of different
WINX Tower (pronounced wings) is a high-rise office building about 110 meters (361 feet) tall and located at the border to the financial district. The building features 27 floors and 34,850 square metres of total space. WINX houses offices, restaurants and commercial premises. A transparent roof end takes some of the weight off the building.
Mar
For the 13,700 square meters plot at the entrance to Frankfurt's Europaviertel, the former Telenorma site, an ideas contest was launched at the beginning of the year. The 90 meters high 'Tower 90' for the Berliner gsp Städtebau was the main object of interest. The proposal of the architectural firms, Jahn (Chicago) and Magnus Kaminiarz
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