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Frankfurt Skyper : Taunusanlage

Tall Building – Hesse Skyscraper, Germany – design by JSK Architekten

Skyper

Frankfurt Tower Building

Also known as Taunusanlage
Date built: 2004
Design: JSK Architects

Height: 154m high
Location: Bahnhofsviertel district

This tower includes a glassy arc of regular office plates.

photos © Adrian Welch

The tallest of the three buildings is a 38-storey, 154 m (505 ft) skyscraper. Its quadrant-shaped silhouette is a distinctive shape on the skyline.

Completed in 2004, the tower is linked by a 9 m (30 ft) glass atrium to a neo-classical villa dating from 1915. The villa is listed as a building of historical importance and once belonged, along with the site as a whole, to the Philipp Holzmann construction group, which used the property as its corporate head office. A residential and commercial building with 52 one- to three-room apartments and ground-floor retail space completes the ensemble.

The plans for the €480 million project originated from Frankfurt architects JSK, who were commissioned by Holzmann AG. With building approval granted, the architects subsequently realised their plans on behalf of general contractors ABG and the new owner, DekaBank, which had purchased the building for an open real estate fund of its real estate subsidiary, Deka Immobilien. Following completion in 2005, DekaBank moved into offices on the lower floors as the main tenant. The higher floors of the building are occupied by well-known names such as HSBC and Houlihan Lokey.

Frankfurt Architecture images by adrian welch available upon request:
photos 1280×1024 pixels, 72dpi

Skyper in context of Frankfurt skyscrapers – look for the blue building:

photos © Adrian Welch