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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.

DFB Campus / kadawittfeldarchitektur

Paula Pintos — Mon, 08 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The DFB Campus with its football pitches, sports facilities, and new building is embedded in Frankfurt’s city forest on the site of the former racecourse. It is within this green setting with a natural boundary to the surrounding areas that the mixture of structural components, sports fields, small open places, and clearings form a joint campus. The required space, including administrative areas, press center, conference rooms, athletes’ accommodation, and state-of-the-art sports facilities, is arranged below a single long-span roof around the individual sports fields and exterior space.

Historical Museum in Frankfurt / LRO GmbH & Co. KG Freie Architekten BDA

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The Historical Museum in Frankfurt is one of the oldest institutions of its kind. It is located directly in the centre of the city, at the Römerberg and near the river Main. Until the 2010s, it was housed in an ensemble of historic buildings and in an annex building from the 1970s made of reinforced concrete. This more recent building had become unsuitable for further use due to technical problems concerning fire protection, escape routes, and contamination by harmful substances.

Flare of Frankfurt Apartments / Hadi Teherani Architects

Valeria Silva — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:00:00 +0000

The complex urban repair performed in an exclusive location in the heart of Frankfurt shifts its surroundings to a new dimension. Not least due to a subtly attuned canon of impressively profiled three-dimensional façades and the unusual density and interlinkage of new urban functions. Not only gastronomic options, retail businesses, and around 60 apartments can be found here: above and beyond them there are residential offers for short- and long-term visitors to the newly value-enhanced banking metropolis.

Senckenberg Quarter / Cyrus Moser Architekten

Paula Pintos — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 09:00:00 +0000

The Senckenberg Quarter is located between the Frankfurt districts of Bockenheim and Westend. The area marks the southern end of the new quarter “Kulturcampus” at the former “AfE -Area”. At the same time, it serves as a joint between the adjacent neighborhoods. In the year 2016, Cyrus Moser was invited to participate in the international competition for the new development and won.

Modular Timber School by gmp Architects Tops Out in Frankfurt

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 05:00:00 +0000

A modular wooden school by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) has topped out in Frankfurt, Germany. Designed for the Miquelallee school center, the project is made using prefabricated wood modules as a temporary structure for two schools. With a steadily growing population, the need for new school buildings has risen sharply in Frankfurt am Main. The design concept was made so that the modular building can be dismantled and rebuilt at another location as needed.

Renault Symbioz Smart Home / Marchi architects

Rayen Sagredo — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 02:00:00 +0000

Lighting designers from Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, have collaborated with automotive company Renault on a unique concept car and smart home unveiled at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show (September 14-24). The SYMBIOZ autonomous electric car is not just a car. It is an extension of the home. The vehicle’s onboard digital technology makes it an interactive and personalized space, connecting its passengers to other cars, people and technologies in the smart home such as Philips connected LED lighting.

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.

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.

KiTa Schöne Aussicht / Birk Heilmeyer und Frenzel Architekten

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The day-care centre for children “Schöne Aussicht” is a prototype of the building block design system for childcare facilities in Frankfurt on the Main. The design has been developed on the basis of a competition won in 2009. The centre comprises two-storey buildings of varying sizes, which are currently errected at several locations in the city of Frankfurt. The buildings are timber structures which meet the passive house standard.

Städel Museum / Schneider + Schumacher

Javier Gaete — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:00:03 +0000

Architects: Schneider + Schumacher Location: Frankfurt, Germany Project Year: 2007 Project Area: 24,726 sqm Photographs: Norbert Miguletz, Christoph Bonke, Kirsten Bucher

Partyrent Building / Jarosch Architektur

Nico Saieh — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Even if its dedication doesn’t date back long, the new premises of Partyrent are no secret anymore.