Project Details
- Project Name
- Metz
- Location
- Germany
- Architect
- Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
- Client/Owner
- Tishman Speyer
- Project Types
-
Office ,Planning ,Custom ,Hospitality
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 65,000 sq. meters
- Shared by
- Selin Ashaboglu
- Team
-
Enea Michelesio, Max Aldunate Reitour, Gabrielė Ubarevičiūtė, Joanna Jakubowska, Katarzyna Joanna Piekarczyk, Lucas Carriere, Emily King, Julieta Muzillo, Giedrius Mamavicius, Lucian Tofan, Raphael Ciriani
, Project Team
Lorenzo Boddi, Project Leader
- Consultants
- Structural Engineer: Bollinger + Grohmann
- Project Status
- On the Boards/In Progress
On June 30, 2015, Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), led by Bjarke Ingels, released designs for a new mixed-use development sited in Frankfurt, Germany. The project, which is a collaboration with local firm Bollinger + Grohmann, will house two types of office settings in addition to residences. The exterior is clad in upright partitions and windows, but broken up in the middle by a series of twisted floors. The subsequent extension of the floors create outdoor patios for residents. The architects chose this design method to accommodate for the urban setting so that it would both fit in and compliment the surrounding area. There's no word on the completion date, yet.
Project Description
FROM THE ARCHITECTS:
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
and Bollinger + Grohmann is announced as the winner of the international
competition to design a new 185 m high rise in Frankfurt's downtown financial
district, combining work, living and public areas under one roof.
Located at the former Metzler
Bank site in downtown Frankfurt, the 65.000 m2 / 645,835 sf mixed-use tower is
the latest addition to the city’s evolving skyline. Tishman Speyer, a leading
international developer and fund manager headquartered in New York, selected
the winning design from among a total of five proposals. Initial demolition
work has already begun on the site, and the tower is estimated to be completed
by 2018. Tishman Speyer is currently developing the new Deutsche Bank Campus
and has so far completed the MesseTurm, OpernTurm and TaunusTurm buildings in
the city’s financial district.
BIG’s
proposal is informed by the surrounding context of Frankfurt’s vibrant city
center and various program requirements. The building takes a silhouette that
is both rational and sculptural and pairs it with a strong presence at both
street level and in the skyline.
“By gently shifting the floor plates of the simple elegant volume the tower
incorporates all the elements of a real city: spaces for living and working,
inside as well as outside. The result is a striking new silhouette on
Frankfurt's skyline that looks different purely because it performs
differently. The shift at the hip will be a sign that new life has infiltrated
the cluster of corporate headquarters in downtown Frankfurt.“ Bjarke
Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG.
The tower is articulated as a
slender and rational stack of inhabited floors, interrupted by two sculptural
moves where the program changes. At street level, the floor plates of the building
are shifted back and forth to create inhabitable terraces and canopies, facing
a new square that can be used for social activities during daytime or
after-work hours. Residential floors occupy the middle section of the tower
where the floor plates slide out in a spiraling movement to create terraces and
generous views for residents. The offices inhabiting the tower’s upper floors
return to a slender rectangular volume, completing the spiral to rejoin the
orientation of the floors below.
“Our proposal for the new Metzler site embodies the unique character of
Frankfurt, a city that has a unusual mix of high-rises of a modern metropolis
and traditional city blocks. In that sense the Metzler tower brings a small
piece of the human scale city into the skyline”, BIG Partner, Andreas
Klok Pedersen.