Schneider + Schumacher

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schneider + schumacher ( original spelling ) is an internationally active German architecture firm based in Frankfurt am Main . Schneider + schumacher has two further offices in Vienna , Austria, and Tianjin , China. Founded in 1988 by the architects Till Schneider and Michael Schumacher, the office is primarily active in the fields of architecture, construction and project management as well as urban planning. The office designs art and cultural buildings, social and residential buildings, office and administrative buildings as well as commercial and industrial buildings.

Corporate structure

The architects' office schneider + schumacher works on five areas of responsibility: Traditionally the fields of architecture, construction and project management as well as urban planning. In addition, the areas of design, kinetics and parametrics. The office is based in Frankfurt am Main and is also represented in Vienna (AT) and Tianjin (CN).

owner

The architects' office is owned by the two founders Till Schneider and Michael Schumacher.

Till Schneider

Till Schneider, born in 1959, is an architect and town planner and, together with Michael Schumacher, founder, owner and managing director of schneider + schumacher. He studied architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern, the TH Darmstadt and the Frankfurt Städelschule with Sir Peter Cook . He then worked as a freelancer in the Eisele + Fritz office and at Mürb in Darmstadt. In 2005 he was a substitute professor for design and building technology at the TU Darmstadt . Till Schneider has been Chairman of the BDA Group in Frankfurt since 2010.

Michael sSchumacher

Michael Schumacher, born 1957, is an architect and, together with Till Schneider, founder, owner and managing director of schneider + schumacher. After studying architecture at the University of Kaiserslautern and postgraduate studies in Sir Peter Cook's class at the Frankfurt Städelschule , Michael Schumacher worked as a freelancer in Sir Norman Foster's architectural office in London. From 1999–2000 he was visiting professor at the Städelschule. Since 2007 he has been professor of design and construction at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, Leibniz University Hannover . From 2004 to 2009 Michael Schumacher was the Hessian state chairman of the Association of German Architects (BDA Hessen).

The architecture of Schneider + Schumacher

  • Infobox , Berlin (1994)

  • KPMG office building , Leipzig (1992–1997)

  • J. Walter Thompson office building, Frankfurt am Main (1992–1995)

  • J. Walter Thompson office building, Frankfurt am Main (1992–1995)

  • Extension of the Städel Museum

Schneider + schumacher became internationally known with the infobox on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The bright red lacquered box, “walking” on stilts, developed a strong presence on site and in the media. The infobox was opened in October 1995 and dismantled in January 2001 as planned.

The most recent and internationally best known completed project is the expansion of the Frankfurt Städel Museum . The new underground extension is visible from the outside as a green hill in the Städelgarten. 195 circular skylights cover the lawn and illuminate the underground exhibition hall with daylight. In 2012 the so-called garden halls were inaugurated. From 2008 to 2011, schneider + schumacher renovated and revitalized the Frankfurt Silvertower / Silberturm (former headquarters of Dresdner Bank ). Both projects were awarded the BDA's 2012 Martin Elsaesser plaque. Further realizations in the center of Frankfurt are the restoration of the former American Consulate General in Siesmayerstraße and the conversion of the former America House to the Instituto Cervantes . Also in Frankfurt, a new quarter with residential and office buildings was built on the Westhafen site , for which schneider + schumacher developed the urban design. An ensemble of three buildings was created here in the direction of the city center to the east - the Westhafen Tower , the Westhafenhaus, the Westhafen "bridge building" - and the Westhafen Pier at the western end .

In 2000, the office in Kronberg im Taunus realized the headquarters of the Braun company . In 2001, the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg memorial was completed as a museum documenting the function of the camp after 1945.

Together with the architecture office DGI Bauwerk from Berlin , schneider + schumacher has been designing a so-called “accelerator center” as a working group “ion42” since 2008 for the international research project Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research ( FAIR ) in Darmstadt . By 2022, a total of 20 accelerator and experimental structures, laboratories and other operational and supply structures for an underground accelerator ring with a circumference of almost 1,100 meters are to be built. On an area of ​​around 100,000 square meters, the scientists will research the properties of matter , the origin of the universe and its evolutionary history, and new energy technologies .

Buildings (selection)

  • Infobox , Berlin, 1994 (dismantled 2001)
  • ERCO P3 high-bay warehouse , Lüdenscheid, 1999–2001
  • Westhafen Tower , Frankfurt am Main, 1999–2003
  • Westhafen-Haus, Frankfurt am Main, 2001–2003
  • Westhafen bridge building, Frankfurt am Main, 2002–2003
  • Westhafen-Pier , Frankfurt am Main, 2002–2004
  • Office building in Siesmayerstrasse (formerly the American Consulate), Frankfurt am Main, 2005–2007
  • Controlling Center of the German Air Traffic Control , Langen , 2005–2008
  • Instituto Cervantes (formerly Amerikahaus), Frankfurt am Main, 2007–2008
  • Refurbishment of the SilverTower / Silberturm , Frankfurt am Main, 2008–2011.
  • Expansion of the Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main, 2008–2012
  • Fronius International Research and Development Center Wels-Thalheim , 2007–2011
  • Siegerland motorway church , 2012–2013
  • Raunheim Oil Harbor Bridge , 2014.
  • International Accelerator Center FAIR (Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research) as Arge "ion42" (schneider + schumacher, Frankfurt + DGI Bauwerk, Berlin), 2008–2022
  • MBS Study and Conference Center, Mannheim, 2013–2017

literature

  • Peter Cachola-Schmal, Till Schneider, Michael Schumacher (eds.): Schneider + schumacher. Prestel Verlag, Munich / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-7913-5147-6 .
  • Manuel Cuadra (ed.): Big houses, small houses. Award-winning architecture in Hessen 2003–2008. Frankfurt am Main 2008.
  • Ingeborg flag (ed.): Schneider + schumacher architecture, relationships - Relationships. Hamburg 2005.
  • Architektur-Galerie am Weißenhof (Ed.): Frankfurt am Main - schneider + schumacher. Exhibition catalog. Baunach 2004.
  • Build - the architect portrait: schneider + schumacher. 2/2004.
  • Manuel Cuadra, Jo Franzke (ed.): Architecture in Frankfurt am Main 1999–2003. Hamburg 2002.
  • Fabian Wurm, Jörg Hempel: schneider + schumacher KPMG building, Leipzig. Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart / London 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information according to the homepage: http://www.schneider-schumacher.de/ (accessed on March 23, 2013)
  2. ↑ Urban development price for the Ölhafenbrücke. In: FAZ . October 16, 2014, p. 46.