Commerzbank Tower
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Key facts
- Type
- Office
- Location
- Kaiserplatz 1, Frankfurt , Hesse , Germany
- Cost
- DM 600 million
- Owner
- Samsung Insurance Corporation (sold for €620 million; sold-and-leased back until 2031 by Commerzbank)
- Antenna spire
- 300.1 m (985 ft)
- Roof
- 258.7 m (849 ft)
- Floor area
- 109,200 m (1,175,000 sq ft)
- Architect
- Norman Foster
- Developer
- Commerzbank
- Structural engineer
- Arup , Krebs und Kiefer
- Main contractor
- Hochtief AG
- Public transit access
- Willy-Brandt-Platz 11 Willy-Brandt-Platz
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- office building
- Named after
- Commerzbank AG
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Frankfurt-Innenstadt I
- Area
- 91000
- Owned by
- Samsung Life Insurance
- Material used
- aluminium
- Location
- Innenstadt
- Image
- Commerzbank-Hochhaus 2010-09-06 01.jpg
- Height
- 259
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- structural engineer
- Arup
- number of elevators
- 25
- street address
- Große Gallusstraße 17–19
- native label
- Commerzbank Tower
- Commons category
- Commerzbank Tower
- architect
- Norman Foster
- main building contractor
- Hochtief
- floors above ground
- 56
- floors below ground
- 2
- architectural style
- modern architecture
- inception
- 1997-00-00
- occupant
- Commerzbank AG
- capital cost
- 600000000
- maximum capacity
- 2800
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Encyclopedic overview
Commerzbank Tower is a 56-story, 259 m (850 ft) skyscraper in the banking district of Frankfurt, Germany. Including an antenna spire on top, the tower has a total height of 300.1 m (985 ft), making it the tallest building in Germany.
Commerzbank Tower was designed by Foster & Partners, with Arup and Krebs & Kiefer (structural engineering), J. Roger Preston with P&A Petterson Ahrens (mechanical engineering), Schad & Hölzel (electrical engineering). Construction of the building began in 1994 and took three years to complete. The building provides 121,000 m (1,300,000 sq ft) of office space for the Commerzbank headquarters, including winter gardens and natural lighting and air circulation. The building is lighted at night with a yellow lighting scheme that was designed by Thomas Ende who won a competition.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Commerzbank Tower” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.