The Brick 2.0
The Brick 2.0 is an office building of Deutsche Bahn AG in Frankfurt am Main with a 66-metre high tower – the DB Tower. A total of 3,000 Deutsche Bahn employees will find space in the formerly industrially used areas of the newly developed Europaviertel.
Concept of the Urban City Within the City
The building is part of the Boulevard Mitte quarter and is based on the concept of the urban city within the city. Schmidt Plöcker Architekten from Frankfurt is responsible for the architecture, while Werner Sobek was in charge of the structural design. The Brick has a total of six upper floors, a technical floor above and an underground car park. The building is approximately 26 m high.
Architecture
Schmidt Plöcker Architekten, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Planning time
2017 – 2018
Construction time
2019 – 2020
Services by Werner Sobek
Structural engineering (WP 1 – 5 acc. to HOAI)
GFA
ca. 30,000 m²
Client
Aurelis Real Estate GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Photography
Lars Gruber, Darmstadt (DE)
