Skylight (Frankfurt am Main)
| Skylight (Frankfurt am Main) | |
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| Skylight from the southwest, September 2012 | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Stephanstraße 14–16 ( city center ) |
| Construction time : | 1999-2001 |
| Architectural style : | Postmodern |
| Architect : | Richard Rogers Partnership , ABB Architects |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | Office and bank building |
| Owner : | Deka Immobilien GmbH |
| Client : | DeTe real estate planning and construction management |
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| Height : | 66 m |
| Floors : | 21st |
| Height comparison | |
| Frankfurt am Main : | 73. ( list ) |
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| City: | Frankfurt am Main |
The Skylight is an office, business and residential complex between Bleichstrasse, Brönnerstrasse, Stephanstrasse and Katzenpforte in the city center of Frankfurt am Main, designed according to the principle of the “city within the city” . The main building is complemented by a 66 meter high residential tower in the northwest of the complex. The complex opened on September 6, 2001.
The group of buildings was created in 1999–2001 based on a design by Richard Rogers Partnership and ABB Architects for DeTe Immobilien planning and construction management ; the construction costs were around 51 million euros. The current owner is Deka Immobilien GmbH .
history
The area is located on the site of the Frankfurt Neustadt , which was only founded after 1333 , which was only very loosely developed in the Middle Ages and the early modern period , directly behind the fortifications. The oldest city maps of the 16th and 17th centuries mainly show extensive gardens, which mostly served as pale gardens, occasionally as a retreat for the nobility and patricians of the densely built-up old town . Directly to the east was the then much larger cemetery and churchyard of St. Peter's Church .
In the advanced 18th century built on the site, including on fabric, stretching back at least to the 15th century, the buildings of the 1763-founded Dr. Senckenberg Foundation ; including the oldest civic hospital built between 1771 and 1779 . The medieval street Katzenpforte, which is now available again, was abandoned in order to be able to use the area adjoining to the west and pointed to the Eschenheimer Tower .
After softening the city in the early 19th century, the environment changed: As part of the gradual population growth and the classicism increasing desire to live outside the densely built town, there was a strong densification of the hitherto remained the rural Neustadt. New buildings were mainly built along Bleichstrasse and Brönnerstrasse, although these are almost completely preserved on the latter as one of the last streets in the city center.
The oldest community hospital was demolished in 1866, and the second community hospital under Rudolf Heinrich Burnitz was built there on an area almost congruent with the area of today's Skylight according to plans by architect Oscar Pichler, who died in 1865 . Due to the rapid growth of the city - by 1900 the number of inhabitants had almost tripled compared to 1870 - the new building was again undersized after just 30 years.
In 1903 the Dr. Senckenbergische Stiftung therefore signed a contract with the city of Frankfurt am Main . After the contract, the old foundation site fell to the city, which in exchange provided an area on Nibelungenallee. The third Bürgerhospital, which is still in use today, was built there. While parts were the old buildings as well as the tomb of the founder Johann Christian Senckenberg to the new location translocated .
With the demolition of the second community hospital after 1907, when the new building in Nordend was ready for occupancy, the area on Bleichstrasse was again available as building land. On the later Skylight area, the post office was built in 1919/20, on the west of it, after the last building of the Senckenberg Foundation was demolished, the Ufa-Kino Groß-Frankfurt , now separated again from the street Katzenpforte, which has been rededicated. In the Second World War , the postal check office was only slightly damaged in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main according to damage plans and photographs from the post-war period and was soon able to resume its original use.
In 1986 the post office moved into a new building on Marbachweg, and in early 1995 the old building was demolished after years of vacancy. After a delay of several years, the new owner, the Telekom subsidiary DeTe Immobilienplanung und Baumanagement, built the skylight project on the fallow site from 1999 to 2001 according to plans by Richard Rogers and ABB Architects.
architecture
The facility consists of an E-shaped main building between six and eight storeys high, which measures 70 meters in its widest wing on Bleichstraße and 70 meters in its longest at Katzenpforte. The main building houses shops and restaurants on the ground floors and offices on the upper floors, with the crossbar at the Katzenpforte providing 50 apartments.
In front of the east side, which is open to Brönnerstraße through the complex, four independent, but architecturally similar point residential buildings are connected to the central building, resulting in a large northern and a slightly smaller southern inner courtyard. In addition, in the northwest corner there is a residential high-rise projecting out of the floor plan to the west, which is divided into 21 floors with 40 apartments.
To the south of this, between Katzenpforte and the main building, down to Stephanstrasse, is Hans-Flesch-Platz, which is essentially designed by the ventilation pipes of the underground car park that are deliberately led to the outside. At the Katzenpforte there is also the entrance to the three-story basement, which combines underground parking, building services and storage rooms for the residents.
Pedestrian entrances are located in the southwest on Stephanstraße (A), in the middle at Katzenpforte (B), in the northwest to the high-rise apartment building on the corner of Katzenpforte and Bleichstraße (C) and on the east side of the longitudinal wing to Brönnerstraße (D).
Architecturally, the building processes various currents: the cubature of the components that are strictly at right angles to one another corresponds to classical modernism. Details such as the design of the square at the Katzenpforte, the base of the residential tower and the use of matt metal as facade cladding point to the high-tech architecture , elements of postmodernism can be found above all in the general design of the other facades and the natural stone cladding of the residential tower.
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ http://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/Mommunikations_Skylight_-Komplex_von_Richard_Rogers_in_Frankfurt_eroeffnet_9593.html
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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 1.2 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 55.9 ″ E