Double Interview with Christian Olaf Schmidt and Marco Verardi

Home > Magazin > Interviews > Christian Olaf Schmidt/Marco Verardi Architecture - Smart Buildings: Challenges and Opportunities Christian Olaf Schmidt and Marco Verardi in Conversation The construction and real estate industry is currently undergoing a major transformation in the area of digitalization and sustainability. From planning and construction to operation and maintenance, digital solutions such

Atreeum

The Atreeum office ensemble is being built on the former site of the Glasbau Hahn company, between Hanauer Landstraße and the container handling area in Frankfurt's Ostend district. OFB-Projektentwicklung is building the property on the 5,000-square-meter site by 2024, designed by Frankfurt-based architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt. The new building complex, which is described by the environmental

St Martin Tower

St Martin Tower is an office building completed in 2015 in Frankfurt's City West. It is complemented by the Wing corner building. The high-rise offers 16,350 square meters on 18 floors, for which a full service is provided by a concierge team.The building, which was constructed by Immo Hansa Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH as the developer, was

Maintor Panorama

The Maintor Panorama, designed by Christoph Mäckler, forms the new Main Gate directly on the banks of the Main. In addition to a high-quality natural stone façade, the 64-meter skyscraper also offers an inviting two-story lobby, five corner offices per floor and spectacular views of the Main River. Together with the WINX Riverside Tower and

The Move

Siemens AG is building an office ensemble in the Gateway Gardens urban district that will house the company's new Frankfurt branch and provide external tenants with around 20,000 square meters of flexible office space in two buildings. A topping-out ceremony was held in June 2022 for the project, which is expected to be completed by

THE STACKS

In the Kaiserlei district of Offenbach, THE STACKS is a new building that combines modern offices with communal and event areas and strives for special standards of sustainable management. The office project at Strahlenberger Strasse 127, in the immediate vicinity of the Main River, comprises approximately 24,900 square metres of gross floor space and is scheduled for

Sustainability and Digitization

The topic of Sustainability is also becoming increasingly important in the construction and real estate industry. Materiality in particular, but also digitality, are playing an increasingly important role. The primary aim is to minimize energy and resource consumption, reduce land use, and keep the impact of a building on nature and the environment as low

What is a certification?

Climate change and scarcity of resources require architects and the construction industry to rethink their approach. This is why more and more “green buildings” are being built, which are developed under the guiding principle of sustainability. For decades there have been various certifications for evaluating the sustainability of building products and structures. The best-known green

Riverside Office Tower Wayv

In new Harbor of Offenbach, the office tower Wayv (former project name: MAIN GATE EAST) will be built from 2020 onwards. For further planning, project developer Eyemaxx Real Estate AG and OPG Offenbacher Projektentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, a Stadtwerke Offenbach Group company, held an architecture competition in the early summer of 2019. In addition to the Eyemaxx

Building Certification

In the real estate industry, certification systems are gaining increasing attention, whether the buildings are new or recent renovations. Global developments such as climate change, lack of resources and demographic changes have made sustainability more important in the construction sector. In order to promote these trends, a multitude of different certifications have been developed for