Street view of a striking office building with a curved glass façade and red façade elements, flanked by trees and a wide roadway

Eclipse Düsseldorf

Spacious atrium with wood panelling at the reception desk, gallery levels with glass fronts and skylights for natural lighting

Frontal view of a high-rise building with a striking glass façade and red façade profiles, nestled in green spaces in the evening light

Outdoor area with benches in front of the glazed base façade of an office building, striking architecture with red façade elements

Vertical campus shaping new working environments

A conventional office tower organises work by floors. Eclipse in Düsseldorf takes a different approach. Six multi-storey atria create open zones for interaction, retreat and exchange across 16 storeys. Positioned at different levels, they are linked by a spiralling promenade extending from the entrance to the roof terrace.

The result is a spatial dramaturgy that generates movement and fosters relationships. What defines a campus? Spontaneous encounters, visual connections, flows of movement. At Eclipse, these qualities have been translated into a high-rise building, creating opportunities for new ways of working.

At a Glance

1,200 flexible workplaces distributed across approx. 50,600 m² GFA

Six atria and a spiral promenade connecting 16 storeys into an open spatial system

Triangular building form anchors Eclipse within the urban context and creates changing impressions depending on viewpoint

360‑degree façade makes use legible and conveys dynamism and transparency

Holistic design: architecture and interior architecture from a single source

DGNB Diamond awarded and DGNB Platinum certified

Gateway to the city

Eclipse stands at the northern threshold to Düsseldorf’s city centre, directly on Kennedydamm opposite the L’Oréal Headquarter. Located along one of the city’s major traffic arteries, the site offers visibility but also challenges in terms of exterior comfort. The response lies within the building itself: instead of a representative forecourt, the quality of stay is created indoors. Generous interior spaces, illuminated by the atria, provide places to arrive, pause and work together.

Spiral of encounter

The spiral promenade generates a spatial dramaturgy that encourages movement and fosters relationships. What defines a campus? Spontaneous encounters, visual connections, and flows of movement. These qualities have been translated into a Highrise building that enables adaptable possibilities for new working environments.

Façade as communicator

The helix as spatial motif is expressed externally through the façade design: smooth, curved façade sections follow the movement of the helix, alternating with the grid of the shingle like doubleskin office façade and revealing the building’s internal structure. This dynamism creates a play of transparency and depth. The continuous nature of the “360-degree façade” establishes visual coherence and anchors the tower in all directions.

»Eclipse is a building that communicates. Almost an urban mediator between neighbourhood and company.«
Werner Sübai, Senior Partner HPP

Urban anchor on Kennedydamm

Eclipse occupies a distinctive site between the city centre, the Rhine and the exhibition grounds, responding to an environment defined by speed, traffic, and large scales. Instead of withdrawing, the building opens itself to the city: with a landscaped roof garden offering retreat above everyday life, and with a permeable, two-storey base that responds to the public realm and guides users into the building.

Confident within a heterogeneous context

The triangular footprint responds precisely to the urban situation and creates a striking, dynamic presence. Depending on the vantage point, the tower appears slender and elegant without losing its expressive quality. A special feature is the tower’s tip, cantilevering approx. eleven meters above the access road, supported by a three-dimensional V-shaped structural sculpture.

Evolving with changing work realities

Eclipse exemplifies an architecture that not only accommodates change but enables it. Architecture, interior design, and technical infrastructure were conceived together from an early stage to create flexible layouts, strong spatial connections, and high-quality environments. Together with UNStudio, an open building system was developed that is designed for flexibility and anticipates future working requirements.

Project Profile

Project: Eclipse
Location: Düsseldorf
Client: die developer Projektentwicklung GmbH
GFA: 50.000 m²
Services: Architecture, interior design
Completion: 2022
Certifications: DGNB Platinum

Detailed view of a glass façade with rhythmically arranged red façade profiles, in front of which is a green area with trees

Interior view of an atrium with a delicate metal structure and glass surfaces, view of several levels with open workspaces

Terrace area with benches in front of the glass façade of an office building, surrounded by green spaces and trees

Interior view of an atrium with diagonal metal struts and open gallery levels, view of red accents in the room

Detailed view of a glass façade with red façade profiles and perforated metal cladding, clean lines against a blue sky

Want to learn more about how the Smart‑Engine technology achieves up to 34% savings in operating costs and around 29% in energy consumption, and how the user PwC’s activity‑based working approach was translated into a coherent spatial and colour concept? See the interior architecture project: PwC Work Environments.

Meeting boxes in bright red and yellow with curtains and seating areas, flanked by stairs with colourful storage elements