Start of Construction _ 1997 Completion _March 1998 Construction Costs _ 2,2 Mio. EUR* Project Manager _ Michael Krieger * excl. VAT, CG 200-600 Administration Building Schulte-Schlagbaum AG Thinking in Squares The company’s administration building vividly reflects the development from a classical industrial business to a high-tech service provider. The administration complex, which is grouped around an internal courtyard, peaks in a modern designed reception building that corresponds to the forward-looking attitude of the client in materials and design. Almost as a classic consequence, the architecture is determined by a geometric element: The square. It picks up on the form of the entire complex and lends the new building a succinct profile. As part of this, the large square windows in the conference rooms afford the visitor a panorama view of the surroundings. The quadrature of the façade repeats itself in the quadratic glass segments of the window frontage, the grain of the floor and is even retained in the design of the small ventilation windows.