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Funke Media Office
Essen (DE)

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More than the sum of its parts
Funke Media Office
Funke Media Office
Funke Media Office
OFFICE & ADMINISTRATION
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General planning: AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH + FCP Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT GmbH

Project stages: 1–6

Client: FUNKE Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KGaA | Kölbl Kruse GmbH

Invited competition: August 2012

Completion: February 2019

GFA: 46,000 m²

Team: Andreas Göpfert, Diogo Cruz, Fabian Kitzberger, Franziska Sturm, Gerhard Höllmüller, Giulia Bertuzzi, Gui Silva da Rosa, Harald Groll, Jessica Wannhoff, Johanna Aufner, Julia Stockinger, Kassandra Koutsoftas, Lucia de la Dueña Sotelo, Martin Brandt, Martin Gajdos, Olaf Härtel, Ondrej Stehlik, Recep Köse, Stephan Lechner, Till Martin, Veronika Bienert, Zeyneb Badur

Landscaping: Club L94 Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH

Structural engineering: FCP Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT GmbH

HVAC planning: ZFG-Projekt GmbH

Electrical planning: Kubik Project Ges.m.b.H.

Structural physics: DI Röhrer | knp.bauphysik Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH

Energy consulting: Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH

Façade planning: Pfeiler ZT GmbH | Rache Engineering GmbH

Fire protection planning: BSCON Brandschutzconsult GmbH

Commercial kitchen planning: IB Ronge Stria GmbH

Lighting planning: Pokorny Lichtarchitektur

Cost controlling: Ingenieurbüro Radl GmbH

Interior Design special areas:

Company restaurant: Soda GmbH

Media Café (MH2) and Foyer: Triad GmbH

Funke Lounge: Kinzo Architekten GmbH

A true exclamation-point! The headquarter of the international Funke Media Group defines a coherent urban-design ensemble, which, like a well-proportioned body, is articulated as a consistent whole.

Its head: the Funke Media Tower which also accommodates the News Wall, Germany's largest LED video wall. Its fingers: the surrounding buildings, laid out for variable uses, which was a crucial factor in the planning process. Pursuant to this approach, the ensemble also comprises public areas such as lobbies, restaurants, and conference rooms as well as areas of amenity and recreation. In the interior, the pronounced planning idea is inscribed in the different usable areas: newsrooms meet offices, a day-care center for children or employee training facilities.

Based on the colors black, silver, and white, the design concept also references the printing process—metaphorically, the printing ink is put on white paper by silver stamps. As an architectural footnote, large stretches of cast-stone tiling in the outdoor areas, punctuated by water basins, rows of closely planted trees, and courtyard-like green areas underscore the overall urban character of the new corporate headquarters.

Situated between Essen’s Grüne Mitte and Berliner Platz neighborhoods, the built ensemble of the Funke Media Office may, with the harmonious interplay of its structural parts, be read as an urban architectural statement that is newsworthy in every possible sense of the word.

Photos: tschinkersten fotografie 2019, Illustrations: AllesWirdGut

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