A recent major competition for the new European Central Bank in Frankfurt provided an intriguing snapshot of current architectural preoccupations. In February, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced three architects as the winners of a worldwide open architectural competition for the new ECB premises in Frankfurt am Main. The brief stipulated offices for 2500 employees, creating 100 000m~2 of usable floor space (with the option of extension), located on a former 120 000m~2 industrial site in the east of Frankfurt. The historical and listed Gross-markthalle, a trade market designed in the late 1920s by Martin Elsasser, had to be fully integrated into any new design. Notwithstanding the huge scale of the enterprise, the challenge was to design a building which met the requirements of a modern central bank in the twenty-first century servicing a rapidly expanding Euro zone.
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机译：最近在法兰克福举行的新欧洲中央银行（European Central Bank）的一场激烈竞争为当前的建筑关注提供了一个令人着迷的快照。 2月，欧洲中央银行（ECB）宣布三名建筑师成为美因河畔法兰克福新ECB办公楼的全球开放式建筑竞赛的获胜者。简短规定了可容纳2500名员工的办公室，创建了100000m〜2的可用建筑面积（可扩展），位于法兰克福东部以前的120000m〜2工业用地上。由马丁·艾尔萨瑟（Martin Elsasser）在1920年代后期设计的具有历史意义并已上市的Gross-markthalle交易市场，必须完全集成到任何新设计中。尽管企业规模巨大，但挑战仍然是如何设计一栋能满足二十世纪现代中央银行要求的建筑物，为快速发展的欧元区提供服务。
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