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Frankfurt Architecture News: Buildings

post updated 30 June 2026

Frankfurt Architecture News 2020 – 2026, Hesse property development designs chronological order:

30 June 2026
Tishman Speyer Leases 2,900 m² in Frankfurt’s Banking District to International Law Firm BCLP

Frankfurt am Main, 30th of June 2026 – Tishman Speyer has leased 2,900 square meters of office space in Junghof, a prominent office building in Frankfurt’s banking district, to global law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP). Move-in is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2027.

Junghof building in Frankfurt:

photo : Tishman Speyser

The eight-story Junghof combines historic Gründerzeit architecture with modern design, offering approximately 22,000 square meters of office space and around 1,200 square meters of retail and gastronomy space. The property is centrally located in Frankfurt’s Central Business District.

Florian Reiff, Senior Managing Director Germany at Tishman Speyer, emphasizes: “Junghof provides BCLP with the ideal environment for its Frankfurt presence. We are pleased to welcome BCLP and support the firm’s continued growth.”

BCLP is an international law firm with around 1,200 lawyers across 32 offices in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Junghof office tower in Frankfurt:

photo : Tishman Speyser

About Tishman Speyer

Tishman Speyer is a leading owner, developer, operator and investment manager of first-class real estate in approximately 40 key markets across the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Our portfolio spans market rate and affordable residential communities, premier office properties and retail spaces, industrial and data center facilities, mixed-use campuses, and real estate credit investments. We create state-of-the-art life science centers through our Breakthrough Properties joint venture, and foster innovation through our strategic proptech investments.

With global vision, on-the-ground expertise and a personalized approach, we foster innovation, quickly adapt to global and local trends and proactively anticipate our customers’ evolving needs. By embedding health and wellness, enlightened placemaking and customer-focused initiatives such as our tenant amenities platform, ZO, and our flexible space and co-working brand, Studio, into our buildings, we enhance the experience of the people who work and live there.

Since our inception in 1978, Tishman Speyer has acquired, developed, and operated 594 properties, totaling 22 million square meters, with a combined value of approximately $137 billion (U.S.). Our current portfolio includes such iconic assets as Rockefeller Center in New York City, The Springs in Shanghai, TaunusTurm in Frankfurt, and the Mission Rock neighborhood currently being realized in San Francisco.

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20 February 2024
House ZdM9 Offenbach, Offenbach, near Frankfurt am Main
Design: KHBT, Architects and Designers, London/Berlin

photo : Johannes Marburg
House ZdM9 is a freestanding private residence on a remote site close to the city of Frankfurt/Main.

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Frankfurt Building News

Contemporary architectural development in Hesse. Mid Germany built environment designs updates:

2 Sep 2022
NION Frankfurt am Main office building
Design: UNStudio

image : MOARE
UNStudio’s design proposal for NION, a 45,000 m2 state-of-the-art office tower in the Europaviertel in Frankfurt, was selected by Groß & Partner for further development. NION is located in the Europaviertel West, at the interface to the Europaviertel East.

22 Apr 2022
Hauptwache 1 Frankfurt am Main – German architecture competition win
Design: caspar.

images : Signa Real Estate / caspar. / bloomimages
Integration is the word that best describes all the goals and functions of the new “HW 1.” On a number of levels, our design stands for synergistic and innovative integration, association, and connection.

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22 Sep 2021
Grand Tower – Emporis Skyscraper Award
Design: Magnus Kaminiarz & Cie. Architektur

photo © Jochen Kratschmer
This Hesse tower building is one of the winners of a Emporis Skyscraper Award 2020

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Frankfurt Architecture News 2006 – 2019

Frankfurt Architecture News 2006 – 2019, chronological order:

2 July 2019
Leaf and Bean Coffee Co Pavilion, Waldspielpark Heinrich-Kraft-Park
Design: MASK Architects

image courtesy of architects
Turkish Architect Öznur Pınar Çer’s firm MASK Architects has designed an innovative, sustainable, and contemporary approaches to integrate nature with architecture.

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6 Feb 2018
FOUR Frankfurt Towers Development
Design: UNStudio & HPP Architects (UNS + HPP)

image courtesy of architects
UNStudio join forces with HPP Architects to create a consortium (UNS + HPP) to carry out the next phases of the project. Both companies bring many years of experience with large-scale projects, complex planning and design processes.

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18 Oct 2017
Historical Museum Exhibits, Saalhof 1
Architects: Kossmann.dejong

image Courtesy architecture office
Historical Museum Exhibits in Frankfurt
Situated in the city centre of Frankfurt, between the town hall and the Main river, is the completely refurbished and newly extended Historical Museum Frankfurt.

7 Aug 2017
Iconic Awards
The architectural firm AL_A was awarded the title of ‘Architects of the Year’ at this year’s Iconic Awards. The London-based office founded succeeded from the very beginning in impressing the experts with fascinating designs, including the modernisation of the Galeries Lafayette in Paris, the V&A Museum in London and the Central Embassy, a shopping mall in Bangkok. The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, completed in 2016, likewise created a sensation.
Iconic Awards

20 Jul 2017
NHOW Hotel, ONE office and hotel skyscraper complex, Frankfurter Messe
Interior Design: Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos

image : CA Immo/Rafael de La-Hoz
NHOW Hotel in Frankfurt
The nhow lifestyle hotel will open in 2021. It will be the second nhow Hotel of NH Hotel Group in Germany and aims to offer an exceptional design concept and the highest quality facilities and service.

23 May 2017
Alte Oper Concert Hall, Opernplatz
Architects: Buero Wagner

image by Buero Wagner & Federico Ciavarell © Buero Wagner
Alte Oper in Frankfurt
The Alte Oper in Frankfurt is one of the world’s leading concert halls. Each year 450,000 people come to visit more than 400 concerts performed by internationally renowned artists of the classical music, jazz and the entertainment sector.

4 Mar 2017
‘City for All’ at Former Deutsche Bank Site in Frankfurt
Design: UNStudio

image courtesy of architects office
Building on Former Deutsche Bank Site
A ‘City for All’ – this celebrated Dutch atchitecture practice win this architectural competition for the former Deutsche Bank site. Comprising four high-rise towers with a multi-storey plinth and housing mixed-use programmes, large public spaces and incorporated subsidised housing, UNStudio’s design for the former Deutsche Bank site will create a ‘City for All’ in the heart of Frankfurt.

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10 Oct 2016
European Central Bank Frankfurt Tower Building
Design: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

photograph © European Central Bank/Robert Metsch
European Central Bank Frankfurt Tower Building + European Central Bank Development
The dynamic design of this Viennese architecture studio for the new premises of this important European Institution combines the low-level landmarked Grossmarkthalle with a new twisted double tower. The tower is 185 metres high.

European Central Bank Frankfurt Tower
European Central Bank Frankfurt Tower

29 Oct 2016
New Brioni Concept Store Worldwide
Design: Park Associati, architects

photograph : Andrea Martiradonna
Brioni Worldwide Frankfurt Store
The new Brioni Concept Store worldwide declines the classic masculine elegance of the brand through a language, taking inspiration from the great masters of Italian design such as Franco Albini, Gio Ponti, Carlo Scarpa Carlo Mollino.

5 Oct 2016
Opernplatz 2 competition
Design: Baumschlager Eberle Architectes

image © baumschlager eberle
Opernplatz 2 Frankfurt Building
The baumschlager eberle office in Berlin won the realization competition staged by Allianz Real Estate in cooperation with the city of Frankfurt to elicit a design for this site.

23 Mar 2016
Tessellating Canopy System at design festival
Design: Grimshaw Architects

photograph : Tensilation CBecker Lacour
Tessellating Canopy System
A successful collaboration between architects and tensile designers reached its final stage last week at Frankfurt’s Light + Building festival and trade fair, where MDT-tex launched the final Tensilation Type EV canopy system. Grimshaw has been working with MDT-tex to develop a product that offers both the flexibility that comes with modular canopies and the engineering advantages of a unified structure.

17 Mar 2016
BASF SE High-Rise Building, Ludwigshafen
Design: Eller + Eller Architekten

image courtesy of architects practice
BASF SE High-Rise Building Ludwigshafen
Eller + Eller Architekten’s high rise office design for BASF SE in Ludwigshafen, Germany was awarded the prestigious ‘Overall Winner’ prize at the conclusion of this year’s Architectural Review MIPIM Future Projects Awards ceremony. The 26.000 sqm (gross) project, which was also successful in the Offices category of the awards, is currently in the planning phase.