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BANKEN UND BEHÖRDEN • BANKS AND AUTHORITY BUILDINGS TECHNISCHER AUSBAU • TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS

Entwurf • Design MOW Architekten, Frankfurt am Main
Bauherr • Client Privat
Standort • Location Theodor-Heuss-Allee 80, Frankfurt am Main
Nutzfläche • Floor space 332 m (Foyer)
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Fotos • Photos Christian Straub
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Eyecatcher: Das eloxierte und hinterlüftete Aluminiumblech. • The anodised and back-ventilated aluminium sheet Grundriss • Floor plan

E ven after almost 40 years, this high-rise building is still an eyecatcher. The visibility was given a golden diamond pattern. The new reception counter is framed by a wavy
and the advertising impact of the golden façade continues to be appealing for the
reflecting suspended ceiling and an illuminated rear wall of powder-coated aluminium
tenants and attracts the attention of the 25 million drivers passing it every year. Behind hollow profiles. Below the “floating” meeting room is a seating zone in the same oval
the anodised aluminium sheet (and the reinforced-concrete support structure) are no shape with elegant furniture and pleasantly illuminated by numerous suspended lumi-
less than 33,000 square meters of rental space with each storey offering an area of naires. The design of the foyer was tricky for several reasons but the wish was to develop
about 3,600 square metres. In addition to the rental areas and the foyer, there are also a decorative medium to give the foyer a visual centre. Deadlines for the implementation
restaurants on the ground floor. Along the building’s central axis is the supply core. Bet- and budget restrictions were further problems. That was why a kind of cladding was
ween the two halves is the central safety stairwell. Along this “backbone”, six building wanted which seamlessly surrounds the existing building volume in the room and does
sections are arranged like double-chambers, the so-called fingers. After the last change without jointsnor a series of specific individual cladding elements. It was to let the clear,
of tenants in 2019, MOW Architekten have been commissioned with the restructuring of elliptic construction in the room breathe and make it possible to experience it.
the ground floor as well as the 1st, 2nd and 9th upper level. The central supply core with
the hallway to the ring-shaped horizontal access was preserved in F30 quality. Net of 2,500 metres steel rope as a second envelope

The foyer – oval forms inside the square What was important was the distance between the massive building volume and the en-
veloping net. Due to it, the geometrical basic volume does not get cramped or concealed
The so-called fingers were divided into 400 square-metres units within which the future but independently and freely comes into its own underneath the decorative envelope of
tenant fitout can be flexibly adapted to the fire protection. Inside, the floors, walls, wiring the net construction. Consistent with the name of the building project, the netting itself
and radiators were renovated, the ventilation system upgraded and modern intercom and the spacers was given a golden colour. Overall, within two weeks about 2,500 me-
systems for all the areas installed. The rescue system now complies with the latest state tres of gold-dyed steel rope were mounted on 2,400 spacers. The elaborate refurbish-
of engineering with integrated sprinklers, smoke detectors, a new emergency-exit and ment of the office areas and the safety systems as well as the modernization of the foyer
safety lighting, fire dampers and a public address system. The absolute highlight of the challenging as to the design will turn the Golden House into an attractive property in a
building refurbishment is the foyer. The oval meeting room suspended from the ceiling central location and the genuine sparkler of the Frankfurt City West in future as well.

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