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Frankfurt Architecture City Guide: 20 Projects Tracing a Skyline Between History and Modernity

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Frankfurt is often recognised for its distinctive skyline, a rare feature in European cities. Towering glass skyscrapers mark its role as a global financial hub, yet beneath this vertical image lies a city layered with centuries of history, destruction, and reconstruction. From medieval timber-framed houses to post-war modernism and contemporary high-rises, Frankfurt has consistently reinvented itself through architecture, producing a built environment where different periods coexist in dialogue.

Zum Goldenen Hirschen Office Extension / schöne räume architektur innenarchitektur

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 14:00:00 +0000

schöne räume | architektur innenarchitektur has succeeded in the competition and convinced the advertising agency "Zum Goldenen Hirschen" by its presentation for extending their office premises. Late last year, the team of architects started with the planning and implementation of the well-known advertising agency based on the Hanauer Landstraße. Promoting internal communication procedures by architecture represented the focus of re-construction of buildings. Interior fittings and individually designed furniture were not only to match the philosophy of the agency, same should also duly reflect the requirements for individual and team working areas and, demonstrate the agency’s way of thinking. In close liaison with the team of the agency, schöne räume developed a draft conception and design elements and, consequently, accepted responsibility for adequate implementation thereof.

KreativLABs / schöne räume architektur innenarchitektur

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 16 May 2015 09:00:27 +0000

Place of creativity: Working in modern trend laboratories

Kleine Rittergasse 11 / Franken Architekten

Cristian Aguilar — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Good architecture takes its environment into account, particularly surrounding buildings. In Frankfurt am Main, Franken Architekten has taken a literal approach through a digitally drawn façade for a new home and studio in old town Sachsenhausen. Frankfurt’s Alt-Sachsenhausen is a neighborhood that, according to the city, urgently needed to change. Until the 1990s, traditional cider houses dominated the area valued for its entertainment and nightlife, but it was heavily run down in recent years. The city created a preservation statute that placed premiums on the conversion of the gastronomy establishments to housing and other uses. A small scene of art galleries, ad agencies, and fashion and designers shops sprung up in the area, leading some people to call the district SoMa (South of Main), inspired by New York’s famous SoHo (South of Houston) area.