Office buildings

SRH Holding

Location: Heidelberg

Planning barrier-free building technology:
BEC Blum Energieconsulting, Neckargemünd
Execution: euromicron solutions, Ettlingen

SRH Holding (Heidelberg Rehabilitation Foundation) set out a catalogue of very specific requirements to ensure the barrier-free design of its building. The facilities had to be accessible without problems to wheelchair users and visually impaired clients. A free-standing pedestal from the Siedle Steel range first greets visitors approaching the main entrance. The integrated communication terminal clearly indicates from afar what its purpose is: Touching the monitor takes the user to a menu which displays a list containing the relevant contact.

Siesmayer Carrée

In 1955, Skidmore, Owings & Merill LLP, together with Otto Apel, built the US consulate general in the Westend area of Frankfurt.

Sparkasse Ludwigsburg

The major extension work to the Kreissparkasse at the same time entailed regeneration and upgrading of a whole urban area. The ensemble made up of the existing and new sections of the building is highly sympathetic to the proportions and structures of the surrounding development, in particular in the way it breaks up the building mass into individual volumes. Looking to the outside, there is a clear demarcation of the area, towards the inside, it opens into generously dimensioned garden-style courtyards.

IFM media analyses

Two affiliated companies make joint and equal use of this clearly structured office building. The dual use is reflected in the consistently symmetrical building concept, from the basic design right down to the details. Door communication, for instance, is divided at the main entrance into two identical systems each with their own letterbox and access control.

Albis Leasing AG

Location: Hamburg

Architecture: Paetzel Architekten, Hamburg
Electrical planning: Dose & Partner, Hamburg
Electrical installation: Elektro-Hartmann Schneider, Hamburg

The figures speak for themselves: The surface area of the glazing panels used in the facade is equal in size to the 5,000 sq.m. site used for the headquarters of the leasing and financing firm Albis.

District Administrative Office Tübingen

The new District Administrative Office with two lengthways building volumes of different heights, a glass hallway, assembly room, roof terrace and cafeteria is a successful symbiosis of practicality and aspirational design.

Max Planck Institute

Geometric and linear clarity are the dominating features of the striking architectural concept. Its profile is determined by two slender gables arranged in offset formation. These accommodate the workrooms for the scientists, with the so-called Panopticon between them forming a place for meeting and exchange.

Sixt Garden Office

The new administrative headquarters of Germany’s biggest car rental firm accommodates a total workforce of around 1000 in some 25,000 square metres of office space. Sixt itself employs a staff of 350, with almost twice as many working for other enterprises in sublet parts of the complex.

Chamber of Architects

The basic cuboid and cylindrical building blocks which characterize the overall architectural concept of Stuttgart's Haus der Architekten are reflected in the design of the entrance area with its two wings and central reception area.