client:
European Central Bank
programme:
new main office ECB
architect:
Branimir Medić & Pero Puljiz
project team:
S. Valla, J. van den Hoek, O. Sarafopoulos, M. Pfuetzenreuter, S. Ebert, H. Gladys, M. Campschroer, A. van der Hoek
landscape designer:
Karres en Brands, Hilversum
structural engineer:
RFR, Paris
date of commission:
competition 2003
gross surface:
175.000 m2
ECB Frankfurt
The new headquarters of the European Central Bank are situated on the former market place on the banks of the river Main. The entrance, conference and expo spaces are organized in the existing market hall. All the communal facilities, meeting rooms, restaurants, different lobbies are hidden in the landscape and organized around green patios. Administrative spaces are distributed over the three towers. The towers refer to Brancusi scultptures, creating a new icon on the river Main, standing for the European cultural legacy.