Lufthansa is one of the world's leading airlines and a partner in the Star Alliance, the largest network of international airline companies. Their new headquarters are at the centre of Europe's most efficient transport junction, where Frankfurt Airport, motor-ways, and ICE high-speed train lines cross. The comb-like building plan of the Aviation Centre, with ten wings, encloses landscaped gardens as buffer zones, insulating the building against air polluting emissions and noise.
Plants chosen from five continents symbolise Lufthansa's global connections. All 1,850 office workplaces have views into the glass roofed gardens and can be naturally ventilated. The open central passage connects all the different areas. On completion of the second construction stage this communicative building will house 4,500 employees and include building wings embracing 28 gardens.
The roof of the new Lufthansa Aviation Center at Frankfurt Airport is 55,000m^2 of glass lattice inspired by the shape of a paraglider. The futuristic office building provides 1,800 people with a light and airy space in which to work, not just at state of the art workstations, but also in nine indoor gardens. As a certified "low energy building", the LAC requires only one third the energy of a conventional office building. It reflects Lufthansa's cor[orate philosophy by combining the aviation groups' business policy with ecological considerations and sustainability.



The atriums are naturally ventilated and, as "climate buffers', they do their bit to ensure low heating energy consumption in the building. In winter, the temperature does not sink below zero-degrees Celsius, and in the middle of the year temperatures are that of a moderate Mediterranean climate. The gardens are not just a part of the energetic conception, they also possess a considerable overarching spatial quality.