A new landmark for Frankfurt: ONE.
Light seems to rain down on the façade. A subtle, dynamic control system lets the light drip down the façade. Slow and calm in its lighting effect; yet spectacular for the effect of the building at night.

We planned the hotel lighting in the Tower ONE skyscraper in Frankfurt: Rooms, rooftop bar, conference areas and lobbies in close collaboration with the interior designers from Madrid.

The spa and wellness facility extends the five-star Hotel Krallerhof in Leogang south of Salzburg. The central element of the design by Hadi Teherani Architects is a curved and staggered roof construction that blends gently into the landscape. An underground corridor with a spiral yard connects hotel and spa. The varied wellness offer is supplemented by a large swimming pool in a newly created natural lake. Large glass surfaces in the facade and a well thought-out network of paths allow the interior and exterior space to merge.

Our lighting design includes the entire new building indoors and outdoors, as well as the outdoor area of the existing hotel complex. The light creates a special atmosphere as well as orientation and perspectives in the building and in the nature. Subtle light accents emphasize the dynamics of the architecture and strengthen the connection between inside and outside at night.

The German Football Association (DFB) is Germany's largest athletic association. But it did not have a national training center. Which makes the DFB Academy a highly unique project–a new kind of space meant to bring together people of all ages and athletic abilities.
The architects use a large boulevard to connect the large complex of offices, playing fields, restaurants, fitness and hotel rooms.
The concept for the lighting design is based on the idea of an outside boulevard. The colors for the ceiling areas were chosen by us to be in two different blue tones without any lighting fixtures mounted in this "sky," the illumination of which is of central importance to create the illusion of light from above all the way down into the darkest areas.
The lighting on the city boulevard below it is animated and varied making the 230-meter-long route a diverting and entertaining one.
We designed a six-meter-high tree made of lights to serve as the central feature on the market square. It is constructed out of high jumping poles and consciously symbolizes a niche sport in the DFB.

Kanso - a house between a hotel and a private apartment. The lighting design finds the balance between the function, individuality and durability.
The facade is given a striking appearance by the backlit frames. This detail could be brought into the project by us.

The Aletto Hotel Potsdamer Platz is more than just a hotel. It has all sorts of rooms for micro-fairs, events or pop-up stores. These rooms are multifunctional in their lighting in order to do justice to a wide variety of needs.
In the areas used for pop-up stores, a busbar has been integrated into a complex, multifunctional mounted rail display system. The structure's design and arrangement also takes normal hotel operations into account. Cylindrical surface-mounted downlights with busbar adapters and swiveling reflectors provide general lighting. This is supplemented by decorative pendant luminaires on rails.
Standing as a highlight on the rooftop terrace looking out over the city is an over-sized and eye-catching outdoor standing lamp.

Brenners Park-Hotel & Spa in Baden-Baden has been an impressive grand-hotel since 1872. For the innovative restaurant Fritz & Felix, we developed a lighting concept that uses modern LED technology to create an adequate light intensity, ambiance and brilliance.

The Hotel Pullman Berlin Schweizer Hof chooses a light sculpture for the entrance lobby. Due to the seasons and the events of the hotel, moods are staged by light. The possibilities of playing a 3D LED matrix range from waves and volumes to displaying simple motifs in all colours.

In addition to Sylt and Düsseldorf, the Stuttgart Sansibar (Zanzibar) is the third restaurant of the Sylt cult brand. In cooperation with the Engineering Office FachWerk, Kardorff planned the lighting and the lighting control as well as the media and sound system. Variable scenes with maritime character were created for an optimal ambience and well-being from breakfast to after-work-party.

Art, function or daylight optimization? Perhaps a bit of all three. The hotel rooms on the lower level received too little natural light and were unacceptable. We designed a poetic way of diverting the natural light.

The luxury hotel presents itself as a city oasis surrounded by beautiful parkland. Equipped with elegant rooms, antique furniture, Italian marble and exclusive spa facilities, the lighting design creates a personal, informal atmosphere.

The Palazzo Versace hotel consists of luxury suites located in the Culture Village on Dubai Creek. The two hotel wings, Ala Destra and Ala Sinistra, offer 169 luxury suites with up to six bedrooms. The designer palace opened its doors in December 2015. Kardorff Engineers interpreted Italian flair with an artful facade lighting and excellent lighting technology. The atmospheric lighting design also shapes all areas of the hotel interior as well as the hotel’s gardens, pool and spa.

The five-star Hotel Park Hyatt Vienna is located at the Hof, one of the historically most important squares in Vienna's city centre. The building, built in 1915, is a steel concrete building and represents a unique art piece of historicism. The hotel presents itself to the outside world with an elegant, minimalist illumination that accentuates the architecture.

This hotel belonging to the Steigenberger Group is part of the Europacity development around Berlin’s main train station. The facade lighting designed by Kardorff responds to the different vantage points from which the building can be viewed. The hotel was awarded the gold DGNB sustainability certification by the German Sustainable Building Council.

With a height of 355 m, the Emirates Park Tower was opened in Dubai as the world’s tallest hotel building in 2012. Offering a wide range of business facilities with more than 1,600 rooms and 14 restaurants, the JW Marriott Marquis Hotel will become one of the region’s most desirable destinations for the most discerning of travelers.

The Novartis Campus offers an optimal environment for innovation and research for 10,000 employees. Kardorff Ingenieure designed the lighting for the laboratory designed by Rafael Moneo in all areas except the labs.

The original Hotel Berlin, founded in 1958, was an important post-war site for culture and society. Today, Berlin’s third
largest hotel embodies both this past and a modern hotel operation with approximately 700 rooms and suites.

Steeped in tradition, Schloss Elmau was built in 1916 as a cultural meeting place for friends and artists, and following a fire, redeveloped into a five-star cultural hideaway and several luxury spas. The mood of the light at this special place is influenced by warm gold reflections which are reminiscent of sun and moonlight when walking through the rooms, the four restaurants and the three luxury spas. The likewise warm-toned guestrooms allow for variations in mood with custom-designed
and easy to use luminaires.

The Hotel de Rome is located on Bebelplatz in direct proximity to the grand boulevard Unter den Linden. This beautifully restored historical structure, built in 1889 by the architect and master mason Ludwig Heim, was the main seat of the Dresdner Bank until 1945.

The five-star hotel Frankfurter Hof is one of the best addresses in Frankfurt am Main. Across from the Commerzbank, Germany’s tallest skyscraper, the hotel’s impressive location on Kaiserplatz is extraordinary.

The CityQuartier DomAquarée with a total rental space of 70,000 m2 not only offers individual shopping opportunities and gastronomical highlights, elegant apartments, flexible office spaces, and the four-star Radisson Blu Hotel, but
also the SeaLife Center and a GDR museum.

Heiligendamm, the first and most elegant of the German seaside resorts, has picked up on its earlier tradition with the Grand Hotel. The complex atmospheres of this large area from urban – rural to public – private are underlined by the external lighting. In keeping with the very dark nocturnal atmosphere on the coast, the facades are minimally lit, as if by moonlight.

The red lacquered walls with the mounted glossy panels of picture size form the basic design element of the Bar am Gendarmenmarkt. The light connects these two surfaces. A light color was selected which lets the coral red of the wall glow.
Over the bar, a luminous ceiling which shimmers in a mellow red was hung down into the room.