Four (Frankfurt am Main)
Four (own spelling: FOUR ) is the project name of the planned redevelopment of the area known as the Deutsche Bank Triangle in the inner city of Frankfurt am Main . Deutsche Bank sold the land between Großer Gallusstraße, Neuer Schlesingergasse and Junghofstraße to Groß & Partner Grundstücksentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH in 2015. The quarter used by the bank through its Investment Banking department until the beginning of 2017 is planned with four high-rise buildings, which are to reach heights between 100 and 233 meters. In the course of the new construction, the Deutsche Bank IBCF high-rise has already been demolished. Completion is planned for 2023 .
Planning history
"MAX" high-rise project
In 1999, Deutsche Bank invited 110 architects to a two-stage competition for the construction of an approximately 200–250 meter high office high-rise and for the revitalization of their properties on Große Gallusstraße in Frankfurt's banking district . A jury chaired by the architect Christoph Mäckler selected 25 participants for the second stage of the competition, from which in November 1999 five winning designs emerged.
In February 2000, the Murphy / Jahn architecture firm's design for a 228 meter high tower was chosen as the final winner. The 50-storey building, 120,000 m² of floor space and an investment volume of around 1.5 billion marks , was to be built by 2005 in cooperation with the second-placed architect, Dieter Köhler. The building known as "MAX" was supposed to be the third tallest building in Frankfurt after the Commerzbank Tower and the Messeturm . It was planned to open the closed building block between Großer Gallusstraße, Neuer Schlesingergasse and Junghofstraße with a public path system and to convert the IBCF high-rise into a residential building. Deutsche Bank's Investment Banking department, which is based in the IBCF, should have moved to a new dealer center to be built.
In 2001, Deutsche Bank began building its planned new dealer center, the IBC (project name Investment Banking Center ) near the Frankfurt trade fair . However, after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the subsequent lull in the market for office properties, the realization of the "MAX" high-rise became questionable. Apparently the Deutsche Bank had proposed the European Central Bank's project to build their new headquarters, but in 2002 the ECB decided on another location in Frankfurt's Ostend .
After the IBC was completed in 2003, Deutsche Bank sold the building to the American financial investor Blackstone Group and only rented part of the building itself for Deutsche Bank's private and business customers . The dealers from the bank for whom the building was originally intended stayed at the old location in the IBCF high-rise.
"Frankfurter Stadthöfe"
In 2011, the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft invited architecture faculties from five universities to find solutions for redesigning the inner-city area of Deutsche Bank in a competition. The winning design “Frankfurter Stadthöfe” envisaged a 228 meter high tower on Große Gallusstraße, similar to the original design for the “MAX” high-rise. However, upon request, Deutsche Bank left open whether and when the students' ideas would be implemented.
"FOUR" project
At the end of 2013, Deutsche Bank announced that it would leave the area it used in the banking district by 2017. Fund administrators and dealers of the bank, who so far are mainly based in the IBCF high-rise, are to move to a new location at Mainzer Landstrasse 11-17 (“Deutsche Bank Campus”) together with employees of the subsidiary DWS Investments . The reason for the move is the poor structural condition of the IBCF high-rise: The high-rise, which was completed in 1971 and is one of the oldest in Frankfurt, was the headquarters of Deutsche Bank until the twin towers were built on the Taunusanlage in 1984. From 2014, Deutsche Bank held talks with City of Frankfurt and potential investors for a new development of the area. In November 2015, the sale of the 16,159 m² site to Groß & Partner Grundstücksentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH was announced. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.
Architecture and construction
In March 2016, an urban design ideas competition for redesign was decided, which was won by the architecture firm UNStudio . Their design calls for the demolition of all buildings except the listed building on Junghofstrasse and the construction of four high-rise buildings that are connected by a common base building. The high-rise buildings are to be 233 meters (Tower 1), 173 meters (Tower 2), 120 meters (Tower 3) and 100 meters (Tower 4). The tallest building on Neue Schlesingergasse with 59 floors is to be the third tallest building in Frankfurt. It is intended for hotel and office use. The lowest building on Junghofstrasse is also intended for office use; 600 apartments are planned in the other two towers. The gross floor area is 210,000 m², of which at least 90,000 m² are for offices, approx. 60,000 m² for apartments, 30,000 m² for hotels and 20,000 m² for retail and catering. In consultation with the city's monument protection authorities, the building block from the 1950s on Junghofstrasse may be opened in two places in order to enable public routes to the area that have not yet existed. In the new, six-storey base development, shops, restaurants and a day-care center are to provide a public revitalization of the area. The architecture of the building was decided in February 2017 as part of a realization competition that followed the ideas competition from the previous year, in which the Dutch architecture firm UNStudio was again able to prevail against ten other competitors with its designs.
The investment volume is estimated at one billion euros. 4,000 people should work once in the new quarter and at least 1,000 people should live there.
In November 2018, the City of Frankfurt's municipal authorities created the legal planning requirements for the construction of the high-rise buildings.
The demolition work on the existing buildings on the site began in April 2018 and was completed in the following November. From October 2018 to April 2020, work such as the construction of a 1.2 m wide diaphragm wall , the installation of 231 primary supports and 140 foundation piles , various measures to maintain groundwater and excavation took place on the property . Work on the underground car park structure to be constructed using the top-down method has been underway since April .
On May 20, 2020, Groß & Partner announced that the building permit had now been granted and that all legal requirements for construction had been met.
See also
Web links
- Website for the construction project
- MAX at thehighrisepages
- FOUR at Emporis
- FOUR at The Skyscraper Center
Individual evidence
- ^ Only “08/15” in the Deutsche Bank triangle
- ↑ Groß & Partner buys Deutsche-Bank-Dreieck in Frankfurt
- ↑ http://fourfrankfurt.com/de/home/#four
- ↑ Who builds MAX? Preliminary final result of the high-rise competition in Frankfurt
- ↑ MAX high-rise competition decided
- ↑ The third tallest building in Europe is being built in Frankfurt am Main
- ↑ Construction of the MAX high-rise in question
- ↑ Seven courtyards and a tower
- ↑ Relocation by 2017: Deutsche Bank relocates trading hall
- ↑ Deutsche Bank dealers move
- ↑ Deutsche Bank decides on a new location for employees in the "Große Gallusstrasse" and "Asset Management Center" buildings
- ↑ Deutsche Bank sells Frankfurt inner city area to Groß & Partner
- ↑ Four towers and a roof garden
- ↑ Four new high-rise buildings in the city
- ↑ Four high-rise buildings planned in the banking district
- ↑ UNStudio from Amsterdam supplies design for Deutsche Bank area
- ↑ One billion euros for new quarters
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: High-rise buildings in Frankfurt: high-rise quarter can come . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: High-rise buildings in Frankfurt: high-rise quarter can come . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
- ↑ The demolition begins on one of the largest construction sites in Germany - Project Four Frankfurt starts. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .
- ^ FOUR, Deutsche Bank Areal | AWR Abbruch GmbH. Retrieved on August 26, 2020 (German).
- ↑ GP Con GmbH: Construction site report 2018. Retrieved on August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ GP Con GmbH: Construction site report January 2020. Accessed on August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ GP Con GmbH: Construction site report May 2020. Retrieved on August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Groß & Partner | Press | FOUR building permit granted. Retrieved August 26, 2020 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 43 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 25 ″ E