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Frankfurt Skyscrapers Architecture

Tall Buildings in Hesse – Major Tower Buildings in central Germany

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Frankfurt Tower Buildings

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Frankfurt Skyscraper – Latest Tower Building

18 Jul 2012
Tower 185
Design: Prof. Christoph Mäckler Architekten

photo © Klaus Helbig
Frankfurt Skyscraper Building
Germany’s fourth-highest office building – marks the gateway to the new Europa district in Frankfurt am Main and adds a new dimension to the city’s silhouette. The Tower 185 ensemble is made up of two main components: the perimeter block and the tower itself. The style of the perimeter block takes its cue from the urban framework of this European city and forms the layout at street level. The levels, materials and colours of the neighbouring buildings – beige stone walls and slate roofs – have been reflected in the new development.

Proposed Frankfurt Skyscrapers

WestendDuo – pair of towers
2007-
Design: KSP Engelund Zimmermann

Frankfurt Skyscraper Architecture

Commerzbank Tower, Kaiserplatz 1
1997
Design: Foster & Partners, Architects
259m high
Commerzbank Tower Frankfurt

Messeturm, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49
1990
Design: Murphy / Jahn Architects
257m high

Kronenhaus – Krone Hochhaus, Mainzer Landstraße 58 – Platz der Republik
1993
201m high
Bizarre lop-sided rooftop crescent-planned cantilever, easily identifiable
Kronenhaus – Krone Hochhaus

Main Tower, Neue Mainzer Straße 52-58
1999
200m high
Circular glassy extruded tower with red + white antenna at top similar to the
Commerzbank tower

Trianon
1993
Design: Novotny Mähner Assoziierte GmbH; Albert Speer & Partner GmbH;
HPP Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner KG
186m high
Triangular building with inverted pyramid on the roof

Silver Tower
1978
Design: ABB Architekten
166m high
silver pannelled building, lack of texture – clean American style skyscraper
Fire on 32nd floor in 1998
Silver Tower

Plaza Buro Tower
1976
Design: Siegfried Hoyer Architects
162m high
Includes Marriott Hotel – 588 rooms
Sheared slab blocks

Twin Tower Deutsche Bank – aka Deutsche Bank I and Deutsche Bank II
1984
Design: ABB Architekten
155m high
Crystalline glassy building, irregular angular plan extruded up

Skyper, Taunusanlage
2004
154m high
includes glassy arc of regular office plates
Skyper

Eurotower, Kaiserstrasse
1977
Design: Richard Heil Architects
148m high
angular extrusion, located just east of the park, not far from the main railway station, near to the Japan Center. Richard Heil also designed the Frankfurter Büro Center, 142m high slab block skyscraper from 1980 on Mainzer Landstraße

City-Haus, Platz der Republik
1974
Design: Richard Heil; Johannes Krahn Architects
142m high
Fire on floors 38-40 in 1973
Sheared rectilinear blocks

Japan Center
1996
Design: Ganz + Rolfes Architects
Taunustor 2-4
115m high
formal square building with massive postmodern rooftop cantilever, gridded
symmetrical fenestration grouped in squares
Public restaurant – 25th floor: Window 25
Japan Center

Pollux
1997
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates – design architects
Nägele Hofmann Tiedemann und Partner GbR – project architects
130m high
Adj. to MesseTurm

Frankfurt Skyscraper Photos

Frankfurt Skyscraper images © Adrian Welch available upon request:
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Tall Frankfurt buildings, by height

Commerzbank Tower Building
1997
259m high

Messeturm Building
1990
257m high

Kronenhaus Building
1993
201m high

Main Tower Building
1999
200m high

Trianon Building
1993
186m high

Silver Tower Building
1978
166m high

Plaza Buro Tower Building
1976
162m high

Twin Tower Deutsche Bank Building
1984
155m high

Skyper Building, Taunusanlage
2004
154m high

Eurotower Building, Kaiserstrasse
1977
148m high

City-Haus Building, Platz der Republik
1974
Design: Richard Heil; Johannes Krahn Architects
142m high

Japan Center Building, Taunustor 2-4
1996
Design: Ganz + Rolfes Architects
115m high

Pollux Building
1997
Design: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates – design architects
Nägele Hofmann Tiedemann und Partner GbR – project architects
130m high

Old Opera House – Alte Oper Building
1880
Opernplatz

Frankfurt-am-Main Tram Station Building
under construction
Design: Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue – Embt Arquitectes Associats SL
1995: Architecture Competition – First Prize

Messe Frankfurt: Halle 3a – Frankfurt Trade Fair Hall
2001
Design: Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners

Location: Frankfurt, Hesse, western Germany, Europe

Looking north to Frankfurt centre

New Architecture in Frankfurt

Contemporary Frankfurt Architecture – architectural selection below:

NHOW Hotel, ONE office and hotel skyscraper complex, Frankfurter Messe
Interior Design: Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos

image : CA Immo/Rafael de La-Hoz
NHOW Hotel in Frankfurt