Main Tower
50°06′44″N 8°40′19″E / 50.11222°N 8.67194°E / 50.11222; 8.67194
5 below ground
Förster + Sennewald Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Philipp Holzmann AG
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Main Tower is a 56-storey, 200 m (656 ft) skyscraper in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is named after the nearby Main river. The building is 240 m (787 ft) when its antenna spire is included.
The tower has five underground floors and two public viewing platforms. It is the only skyscraper in Frankfurt with a public viewing observatory. As of 2023, it is the fourth-tallest building in Frankfurt and the fourth-tallest in Germany, tied with Tower 185.
The foyer of the building has two art pieces accessible to the public: the video installation by Bill Viola "The World of Appearances" and the wall mosaic by Stephan Huber "Frankfurter Treppe / XX. Jahrhundert" ( "Frankfurt's Steps/20th century").
The tower's design features what appears to be two connected towers. The smaller of the two is of a cuboid shape and a design common to 1970s architecture. The second and taller of the two towers is circular with a blue glass exterior which features the transmission tower on top.
History
The structure was built between 1996 and 1999, and serves as headquarters for Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba). Other tenants are the German Offices of Merrill Lynch and Standard & Poor's and a television studio of the Hessischer Rundfunk. Prominent US law firms Sullivan & Cromwell and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton are also residents of the Main Tower. The first tenants moved in on 5 November 1999, and the official inauguration was 28 January 2000. During weather reports by the television station, the weather reporter stands on the top of the building.[citation needed]
In June 2015, NorthStar Realty Finance of New York entered into an agreement to acquire Main Tower for about €540 million.[5][6]
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Tallest skyscrapers in Frankfurt am Main
See also
- List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
- List of tallest buildings in Germany
- List of tallest buildings in Europe
References
- ^ "Main Tower". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
- ^ "Emporis building ID 109692". Emporis. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Main Tower". SkyscraperPage.
- ^ Main Tower at Structurae
- ^ "NorthStar Pays $600M Plus for Frankfurt Tower". globest.com. 17 June 2015. Archived from the original on 20 June 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.
- ^ MAIN TOWER - SKYLINE ATLAS
External links
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- The official website in English