Gloria Tower - Frankfurt
Competition Entry
With its very central location, 700m from the main train station and at the intersection of two important main streets of the city, Kaiserstraße and Neue Mainzer Straße, the plot of land for Gloria is of outstanding importance and great public interest. Here, Gloria is intended to become a new, important building block in the city skyline of the banking district, Frankfurt's oldest high-rise cluster. Coming from the Untermainbrücke by car, Gloria forms, among other things, the prelude to the impressive chain of high-rise buildings in the banking district along Mainzer Straße.
In the design of the facade, we were inspired by the image of an Icelandic rock formation made of basalt columns. With its multifaceted, staggered glass facade, the tower protrudes from the surrounding buildings like a rock crystal. The sculpture impresses with its radiance and crystalline appearance – it thus forms a particularly expressive landmark with which the city and the silhouette of the new high-rise development area can sustainably adorn themselves thanks to its unique appearance.
From the stone base anchored in the urban space, a glass volume emerges, like a crystal from rocky ground. The base and the glass cubes growing out of it speak an impressive formal language. Intertwined, overlapping, and expanding, the cubes grow upwards, defying gravity. The gleaming cubes push out of the stone base, setting the profiling of the tower in the middle section. The facade design, in its self-evidence, gives precedence to the expressive sculpture of the building's form.
Commissioned by
@kleihues_kleihues_architekten
Images by
@flooer.studio 
