Palaisquartier
The PalaisQuartier is erected between 2004 and 2010 building complex at the Grosse Eschenheimer Strasse in the city center of Frankfurt . It consists of four buildings: a scaled-down reconstruction of the baroque Palais Thurn und Taxis , the 136-meter-high Nextower office tower , the 99-meter-high Jumeirah Frankfurt Hotel and the MyZeil shopping center .
In addition, a car park with 1,396 parking spaces, the largest in downtown Frankfurt, was built under the 1.7 hectare area between the Zeil and the Eschenheimer Turm .
history
The property known as the “Post-Areal” was sold in February 2002 by Deutsche Telekom to the Dutch investor MAB for 230 million euros . In the same year, the architects KSP Engel und Zimmermann Architekten emerged as the winner of the urban planning competition for the building project. The first plans were for the new buildings to begin in July 2004 at the latest and to be completed by the end of 2006. After a series of delays, the mall finally opened on February 26, 2009. The new buildings of the Palais Thurn und Taxis and the two high-rise buildings were completed and occupied in the course of 2011. The planned investment total for the entire project was initially around 800 million euros, but the total costs are now estimated at around 960 million euros.
For the construction project, the former main post office and the 69-meter-high telecommunications tower , one of the first high-rise buildings in Frankfurt from 1956, were demolished. The Rundschau house on the directly adjacent property was also demolished . This 5500 square meter property, which is not part of Palais Quartier, was sold to MAB in June 2005 by the Frankfurt printing and publishing house after 33 months of negotiations. After the Rundschau House was demolished in 2006, it was initially used for construction site logistics for the Palais Quartier. Drafts for the new building were presented by Langhof Architects in 2006; the new building has not yet been tackled.
The construction project was initially known as the “Zeil Project”, then for a long time as “Frankfurt Hoch Vier”, before the current name was presented with “Palaisqartier”.
Palais Thurn and Taxis
The Palais Thurn und Taxis on Grosse Eschenheimer Strasse, which gave the entire complex its name, was rebuilt according to the historical model . It is not a true-to-original reconstruction, but a scaled-down copy of the original late baroque city palace that was destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt in 1944 . The preserved gatehouses were demolished, but their sandstone ornaments were reused in the construction.
Unlike in the past, the new palace is free on all sides, so that the two side wings of the Cour d'honneur are now exposed to the north and south, which they did not have before because of the side courtyards. These facades have been completely redesigned. Finally, the garden facade of the Corps de Logis also had to be completely redesigned in order to adapt it to the changed cubature of the reconstruction. The building is a reinforced concrete construction and has a roof made of steel struts, but still appears to be a historical building from the outside.
In addition to a multifunctional hall for around 1000 people in the basement, retail and upscale restaurants on the ground floor, it also houses offices on the upper floors.
Nextower
Behind the reconstruction of the palace stands a 136-meter high-rise building at the newly created Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 6, also designed by KSP Engel und Zimmermann. In a slightly deconstructivist manner, it has façades made of matt, shimmering aluminum and glass. The office tower has a total area of 48,000 m² on 32 floors. The lobby and several conference rooms are located on the lower floors, while the fourth floor provides direct access to the MyZeil shopping center immediately adjacent. There are two roof terraces at a height of 90 meters, but they are not open to the public. The building was occupied in autumn 2011 and the first tenants were a law firm and a management consultancy.
Hotel Jumeirah Frankfurt
In addition to the Nextower, there is another high-rise with 25 floors and 96 meters at Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz 2. In April 2009 a lease contract was signed with the international hotel chain Jumeirah Group from Dubai , in August 2011 the Hotel Jumeirah Frankfurt was opened after an extensive interior work. The luxury hotel with 217 rooms and suites is the first hotel of the Jumeirah Group in Germany and the third hotel in Europe after London with two Jumeirah hotels. The hotel has a 364 m² ballroom on the third floor, a Talise Spa with separate saunas for men and women, a presidential suite and the modern grill room restaurant “Max on One” on the first floor.
MyZeil shopping center
The MyZeil shopping center, designed by Massimiliano Fuksas , forms the walking distance from Thurn-und-Taxis-Platz to the Zeil shopping street . Over 100 shops are spread over six floors over 47,000 square meters of retail space. The largest tenants include a Rewe store in the basement, the men's outfitter Anson's Herrenhaus on three floors, the Fitness First fitness studio and the Saturn electronics and household appliance store on the third and fourth floors . MyZeil also houses a branch of the Californian fashion company Hollister , which was the first in continental Europe at the time .
Architectural features of the building are the organically shaped glass roof, the trunk-like glass rainwater runoff to the Zeil and the 46-meter-long “Express” escalator that leads from the ground floor directly to the fourth floor, the “Gastro Boulevard”.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nextower at CTBUH
- ↑ Jumeirah Frankfurt Hotel at CTBUH
- ↑ Thomas Stillbauer: Frankfurt de luxe: Sesame, open up! In: fr-online.de . August 12, 2011, accessed December 18, 2014 .
- ↑ www.jumeirah.com
- ↑ http://www.jumeirah.com
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 53 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 53 ″ E