At the Immoblienforum Düsseldorf, Pandion’s CEO Reinhold Knodel joined the "high-rise group” debate: “Growing towns and cities can profit in three ways from high-rise buildings: firstly, high-rises allow a careful treatment of inner-city space, a rare commodity. Secondly, high-rises have an urban development component - anyone who builds high-rises changes a city’s silhouette, its calling card. And thirdly, high-rises have their very own fascination because they offer far more opportunities for exciting architecture than normal apartment complexes.” Pandion has built two residential high-rises in Düsseldorf’s Le Quartier Central, Pandion D’Or and Pandion Le Grand. Pandion Vista in Cologne, one of the prominent “Kranhäuser” on the Rhine, has even managed to establish itself as one of the city’s landmarks.

The second stage of construction of our Pandion 4Living project in Berlin’s Conrad-Blenkle-Straße 29 went on sale in March: around 360 freehold apartments will be built on the border between Prenzlauer Berg and Friedrichshain by the end of 2020.

Day 3 welcomes us with some mild weather and a fantastic atmosphere: the industry presents itself at the world's leading property market, mipim, in the French city of Cannes for the 30th time this year, the perfect market place for transactions, ideas, innovations. This is where around 26,000 experts, developers, planners, engineers, city planners, financial backers, representatives of towns and cities, estate agents, service providers and advisors from around the world get together to present their ideas and projects. Digitisation and sustainability remain hot topics at the trade fair, but the industry is also concerned about the uncertain geo-political situation. PANDION is one of the numerous German exhibitors and is introducing its own topics. We have even more commercial projects, property purchases and a record project volume of around 2.5 billion euros to celebrate. Here at the mipim we are a partner on the Berlin-Brandenburg booth and are also present at NRW.invest/Cologne and Düsseldorf. The international trade fair in the south of France runs until Friday.

The green light was given for the construction of the PANDION THE GRID ensemble of buildings in Kreuzberg at the beginning of March. Space for offices and restaurants etc. are being planned on almost 14,000 square metres. The plans were drafted by the Berlin architect’s office of Eike Becker.