The jury found that the original “village” concept for a small-scale cluster of buildings along the Main river was an original response to the given programme. A transparent roof will cover a large part of the site to form a kind of “European umbrella”. Mid-rise buildings will create an animated skyline above the roof. The “Grossmarkthalle represents the public façade of the ECB” and is treated as a “found object” framed by water basins and large transparent roofs sloping gently towards the historic building.