Frankfurt Tower Buildings:


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Proposed Frankfurt skyscrapers:
WestendDuo - pair of towers
2007-
KSP Engelund Zimmermann

Frankfurt Architecture

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

Messeturm, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49
1990
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

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
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
ABB Architekten
166m high
silver pannelled building, lack of texture - clean American style skyscraper
Fire on 32nd floor in 1998

Plaza Buro Tower
1976
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
ABB Architekten
155m high
Crystalline glassy building, irregular angular plan extruded up

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

Eurotower, Kaiserstrasse
1977
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
Richard Heil; Johannes Krahn Architects
142m high
Fire on floors 38-40 in 1973
Sheared rectilinear blocks

Japan Center
1996
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

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


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Tall Frankfurt buildings, by height:
Commerzbank Tower
1997
259m high


Messeturm
1990
257m high

Kronenhaus
1993
201m high


Main Tower
1999
200m high


Trianon
1993
186m high

Silver Tower
1978
166m high


Plaza Buro Tower
1976
162m high

Twin Tower Deutsche Bank
1984
155m high

Skyper, Taunusanlage
2004
154m high


Eurotower, Kaiserstrasse
1977
148m high

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

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


Pollux
1997
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates - design architects
Nägele Hofmann Tiedemann und Partner GbR - project architects
130m high

Old Opera House - Alte Oper
1880
Opernplatz

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

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




Looking north to Frankfurt centre

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