Located between two main arteries of the city, Zeppelinallee and Bockenheimer Landstrasse, and next to its 19th-century botanical garden, the extension to the KfW Group’s headquarters complements an existing ensemble of administrative buildings. Conc
A building with explicit references to medieval architecture replaces an obsolete brutalist annex that never managed to gain acceptance in the historical core of the city of Frankfurt. An entrance plaza envisioned as an open-air exhibition space divi
Next to Frankfurt am Main Central Station, a new mixed-use complex of 58,000 m² is built with two volumes joined by a podium. The tallest, reaching 140 m high, has a dynamic shape generated by the changing geometry of its balconies... [+]
Downtown Frankfurt mixes medium-rise blocks – instrumental in forming clear-cut and dynamic public spaces – with high-rises, a combination that offers density and a skyline echoing the Taunus Mountains to the north. Omniturm joins this heterogeneous
La nueva sede central de la compañía aérea alemana se localiza en la intersección que más tráfico soporta de Europa, donde se juntan el aeropuerto de Frankfurt, importantes autopistas y líneas de trenes de alta velocidad. La planta en peine del edifi
En el Zoológico de Frankfurt se alza una nueva instalación llamada Selva Borgori (neologismo formado con la ‘B’ de bonobo, ‘or’ de orangután y ‘gori’ de gorila), un hábitat artificial para alojar cuatro especies de homínidos o grandes simios, nuestro
Immortalized movies many times, the luxury residential skyscraper – which was so popular in the United States during the 1930s – barely finds equivalents in Europe, where in many places high-rise housing is synonymous with low-cost dwelling and socia
Conceived at the same time that the euro was born, and built in Frankfurt as a concession to a Germany fearful of losing the Deutschemark, the headquarters of the European Central Bank has been inaugurated at the worst possible time. The discrediting
Coétaneo de los grandes maestros de la modernidad, Paul Bonatz (1877-1956) fue una figura marcada por la presión de las vanguardias y la nostalgia del clasicismo; una exposición en el DAM de Frankfurt recupera su obra.
El devenir de pocas disciplinas ilustra como la arquitectura el permanente oscilar de la modernidad entre el impulso de emancipación individual en una sociedad secular y los anhelos de redención comunitaria. Y pocas arquitecturas ejemplifican como la
La exposición organizada por la Sociedad Estatal Hannover 2000 y el Museo de Arquitectura de Frankfurt sobre un siglo de arquitectura española forma parte de una serie demuestras monográficas de países promovida por el museo, y se acompaña de buenos
After the towers of Hong Kong and Tokyo, the Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt is Foster’s third high rise building and, with 53 storeys and 300 metres, the tallest in Europe (Century rose to 20 storeys, and Hong Kong to 28, 35 and 41). In the of
Both Frankfurt and the BBC were significant projects that never reached completion; but whereas the indoor athletics stadium, winner of a restricted competition in 1981, substantially develops and extends the concept of the Sainsbury Centre, the new
