Just a few months after its completion, the ‘Parkend’ residential quarter was included in the ‘FIABCI Prix d'Excellence Official Selection 2019’, one of the most coveted awards for construction projects - the ‘Oscar’, so to speak, for particularly outstanding project developments in architecture. It is therefore no coincidence that the neighbourhood in Frankfurt's Europaviertel bears the epithet ‘residential park of superlatives’: embedded in a liveable environment, living in state-of-the-art comfort offers an extraordinarily high quality of life. The two apartment buildings completed in 2019, ‘Versailles Park’ and ‘Louise-Marie-Park’, with a total of 105 exclusive flats, blend into the ‘white city’ with a pure southern exposure on the front line to the park.

In terms of urban planning, the residential neighbourhood is characterised by a harmonious, urban-elegant overall appearance. And the planning architects at Wentz & Co have succeeded here in achieving what many new-build complexes lack: Each of the 18 individual buildings shows a personal ‘face’, its own style, with an individual façade design. At the same time, the superimposed approach of the façade architecture combines the individual buildings into a harmonious, coherent overall design. With numerous projections and recesses, emphasised window reveals and visually effective balconies integrated into the building envelope, the two buildings present themselves as a modern adaptation of the popular Wilhelminian style façades. The chosen mix of clinker brick and rendered surfaces on the façades creates a further architecturally harmonious bridge between tradition and modernity.