Article source: Just Burgeff Architekten

WestendGate, also known as the Marriott Hotel, is currently being extensively modernized by Just/Burgeff Architekten. At 159 meters and 47 storeys, the original structure was for a short time the tallest high-rise in Germany. Built in 1976 by the architect Richard Heil in the Westend of Frankfurt am Main, the building became the path breaker for high-rise construction in the whole district and the rest of Frankfurt. Since the Marriott Hotel Group moved there in 1989, it is still the highest hotel in Europe. It occupies the top 18 of the 46 storeys of the three wing structured existing building. It has its own lobby on the ground floor and uses the second floor for a ball room.

WestendGate with Skyline

• Architects: Just Burgeff Architekten
• Project: WestendGate
• Location: Hamburger-Allee, Frankfurt am Main
• Client Aberdeen GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
• Design Just/Burgeff Architekten GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, mit a3lab, asterios agkathidis architecture, Frankfurt am Main
• Structural design Wilhelm und Partner, Stuttgart
• Specialist engineers Landscape architects: Freiraum X, Frankfurt am Main
• Date of completion (December, 2010)

List of firms

• Canopy: Heinrich Rohlfing GmbH, Sternwede-Niedermehnen
• Façade: Lindner Fassaden GmbH, Arnstorf

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