New Beginnings in a Modern Working Environment

The starting whistle will sound in early 2026: By building a new administrative headquarters – consisting of a new building and a fully renovated tower – Messe Düsseldorf is laying the foundation for a modern working environment.

Construction will continue through 2028 and, when it is completed, the approximately 650 employees at Messe Düsseldorf’s headquarters will hardly recognize their workplace. Open working environments that meet all the requirements of today’s world of work will be created in both parts of the building. Messe Düsseldorf is investing approximately €100 million in the project.

The workplace concept will be overhauled from the ground up and adapted to contemporary forms of collaboration, with open-plan offices designed to facilitate an even more fruitful exchange of information between teams and strengthen their sense of togetherness. In addition, the new working environment will boast up-to-date meeting rooms, quiet areas for confidential discussions, spaces for socializing, and workstations for focused, distraction-free work. The aim is to boost long-term employee satisfaction while further improving the services provided to customers.

One focus during the modernization of the administrative headquarters over the next few years will be the construction of a new building. In a nutshell, the concept for the planned building can be summarized as follows: green at the bottom, photovoltaics on top and state-of-the-art working environments in between. Constructed in accordance with the gold standard of the German Sustainable Building Council, the new building will be 23 meters high, 50 meters wide, and 50 meters long. Some 14,000 square meters of office space will be created across four floors. Plans also call for the top floor of the new building to house a multifunctional event space – an attractive venue with an experiential character that symbolizes Messe Düsseldorf’s transformation and sense of new beginnings.

The highlight is the 289-square-meter green inner courtyard, where flower beds and trees with deep roots are planted in the soil in an unsealed surface area. Together with the completely green roof area, these plantings create a pleasant microclimate. The photovoltaic system installed on the roof of the new building will be used in conjunction with a heat pump to operate the office building. Another sustainable feature: The new building will have an easily removable system facade, ensuring fast, cost-effective construction times and minimal material usage. 

In addition to the new building, the rear of the two administration towers will be fully renovated by 2028. Once that’s completed, the working environments will be on the same level as those in the front. The new building and the tower will be connected by two connecting walkways, one on the ground floor and one on the fourth floor.

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