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| Groundbreaking of the new premises of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany
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May 20, 2010
 The groundbreaking of Coop Himmelb(l)au’s new premises of the European Central Bank has been celebrated yesterday in attendance of Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, Petra Roth, Mayor of the City of Frankfurt, Wolf D. Prix, Design Principal and CEO of Coop Himmelb(l)au, the Governing Council as well as the Governors of the National Central Banks on the site of the future new premises of the European Central Bank.
During the ceremony Wolf D. Prix said in his speech for the groundbreaking: “The task of architecture is not only to provide a shell for functions, but through its architectural aesthetic it must also enable to establish three-dimensional cross-references in the culture of our globalized society without denying its location. The dialectic of old and new – the carefully renovated Großmarkthalle and the new ensemble of towers – will mirror this synchronicity.”
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