The Squaire
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The Squaire is an office building in Frankfurt, Germany. It was built between 2006 and 2011 on top of an existing train station (Frankfurt Airport long-distance station) near Frankfurt Airport. The building is 660 m long, 65 m wide, 45 m high, and has nine floors. With a total floor area of 140,000 m2 (1,506,900 sq ft) it is the largest office building in Germany.[1][2] Its dimensions and design make it a groundscraper. The Squaire is directly connected to Terminal 1 of Frankfurt Airport through a pedestrian connecting corridor.
Name
The term Squaire is a
Location and connections
The Squaire is located between two motorways, the
The Squaire is connected to a multistorey car park to the west by a people mover called MiniMetro operating high above the highway driveways.
History
When Deutsche Bahn announced plans to build a fast rail link between Cologne and Frankfurt (Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed rail line) it planned for a second train station at Frankfurt Airport because it was clear that the existing train station would not be able to handle the predicted traffic. Construction work for a new train station close to the airport grounds started in 1995 and was finished in 1999. With a glass dome on top, it was designed to allow the later construction of an office building.
Preparatory construction work on the office building started in November 2006 based on a design by the Frankfurt based architecture firm JSK.[3] The main investor of the project is the IVG Immobilien AG in Bonn.
Due to lack of potential tenants the plans were delayed several years until 2006 when the construction of the building, then called Airrail Center Frankfurt, began with an announced opening day in 2010. The foundation stone was laid on March 1, 2007.[4] Planned construction costs were 660 million Euro. Trouble with the construction company and the use of bad construction steel imported from China, which had to be replaced, pushed the costs up to 1 billion Euro. In June 2010 the name was changed to The Squaire. The main tenants' move-in took place in sections, beginning in April 2011, until December 2011.
Tenants
The
References
- ^ DB Schenker entscheidet sich gegen IVG. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nr. 46, 24 February 2011, p.15.
- ^ "Frankfurt Airport - The Squaire". www.frankfurt-airport.com. Archived from the original on 2019-07-06.
- ^ Zahlen und Daten auf der Gebäude-Homepage
- ^ Airrail Center auf der Platte soll bis Ende 2009 fertig sein in Treffpunkt (Kundenzeitschrift der Flughafengesellschaft), Ausgabe 2/2007.
- ^ https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/fraapgi-hilton-garden-inn-frankfurt-airport/ Official website