Outline Concept
“Performing Landmark
The essence of the design proposal - an assembled shape of different bodies echoes the multiplicity of the member's identities. Not a monolith, not a gigantic super-symbol but a complex composition, a cluster comprising different volumes: Lying - Flying - Rising, reaching in different directions while focussing on an inner rotation within an overall formation of ‚bodies in balance‘.

The historic Market Hall building and the sculptural shapes of the ‚flyscraper‘ and skyscrapers form a condensed Euro-City including distinctive in-between and void spaces.

In times of dissolving borders the urban landscape evolves as a model for cohabitation and mutual support. The rhythm and the folds of the ground relief create a generous public space concept, reinterpreting the landscape along the banks of the river Main.

The visible parts of the new ECB City form a high-rise cluster adjacent to the Market Hall. The Market Hall acts as a filter, a transitory element, incorporating semi-public uses. A ‚flyscraper‘ and three skyscrapers are arranged as a group on a platform. The ‚flyscraper‘, allocated to the board, and the cluster dock like spacecrafts. The other high-rise buildings contain office spaces. These urban blocks have been arranged to form a collective shape, creating an independent cluster as a distinctive landmark building.

Inside / Outside
The space sequences inside the buildings correspond to the rhythm of the landscape outside. The main entrance hall promotes a spectacular view of the river Main. The southern platform building acts as a garden of light from which the lift towers of the high-rise buildings rise like tree-trunks. Ramps and staircases lead to the garden levels and to the landscape park outside.”