West arcade

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KfW West Arcade
KfW West Arcade
Basic data
Place: Zeppelinallee 8 ( Frankfurt-Westend )
Construction time : 2006-2010
Architectural style : Modern
Architect : Sauerbruch Hutton
Use / legal
Usage : office building
Owner : KfW
Main tenant: KfW IPEX-Bank
Client : KfW
Technical specifications
Height : 56 m
Floors : 15 upper floors
address
Address: Zeppelinallee 8
Post Code: 60325
City: Frankfurt am Main
Country: Germany

The Westarkade is an office building in Frankfurt am Main . The building is located in the Westend district at the beginning of Zeppelinallee between Bockenheimer Landstrasse and Palmengarten . KfW is the client and owner of the 95 million euro West Arcade . KfW IPEX-Bank is the sole user of the 56 meter high building .

architecture

The building complex was erected in 2006 after the demolition of the German library at its former location on Zeppelinallee. Modern energy-efficient building techniques were used. The effect of the building's energy-efficient heating and cooling systems is secured, among other things, by a so-called “pressure ring” on the building's outer shell. With the help of 180 ventilation flaps, natural ventilation of the building is made possible without wind being able to penetrate the building. The system is automatically controlled using data from a weather station installed on the roof and 40 sensors attached to the building. As a result, the building's annual energy requirement is less than 100 kWh per square meter per year, about half as much as a conventional office building in Europe and a third as much as in the USA. This makes it one of the office buildings with the highest energy standard in the world. For this reason, among other things, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat of the University of Chicago named the Westarkade 2011 as “Best Skyscraper in the World”. Design, energy efficiency and impact on the city were evaluated. The structural and facade planning was carried out by Werner Sobek .

literature

  • Matthias Sauerbruch : KfW Westarkade Frankfurt am Main . KfW, 2010
  • Alison Kwok, Walter Grondzik, Walter T. Grondzik: The Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design . Routledge, 2011, pp. 343-350

Web links

Commons : Westarkade  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. KfW IPEX-Bank: Headquarters Frankfurt am Main , accessed on March 24, 2013
  2. Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau: New West Arcade building (PDF), accessed on March 24, 2013
  3. IEEE Spectrum: Frankfurt Tower's Power Trick (PDF), accessed on March 24, 2013
  4. ^ Die Welt: The best skyscraper in the world is in Frankfurt , accessed on March 24, 2013
  5. Werner Sobek: KfW Westarkaden , accessed on August 22, 2018

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 14.1 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 16.3 ″  E