Civic Development

In many inner cities, modern shopping galleries have been developed as new focal points of attraction. A professionally managed shopping gallery with a customer-friendly layout and a high-quality architectural design that blends in harmoniously with the surrounding buildings enhances the drawing power of a city center and helps to win back lost purchasing power. New urban "experience marketplaces" are created by the skilful integration of the traditional and the modern – as, for example, in the "Colonaden" in Cologne central station or Galeria Vankovka in Brünn. The Schlosspark-Center in the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania capital of Schwerin is an excellent example for the harmonious integration of a new-generation shopping gallery in the existing city center surroundings. In this way, architecture helps to make a key contribution to civic development.

The challenges faced by the architects at ECE are reflected in the diversity of construction projects:

• Inner city shopping centers
• Office buildings
• Industrial buildings
• Railway station revitalisation
• Industries centers