Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is an opera I have seen about a dozen times in Frankfurt, with several different casts in two different productions. The first of these was Alfred Kirchner’s production, which had its premiere on September 8, 2001. The premiere was generally well received by the public Read More …
Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 17 Frankfurt’s big illuminated Euro sign is a favorite photo location for tourists from all over the world. Just about every time I ride past here, there is somebody trying to find just the right angle to get his girlfriend, the Euro Read More …
Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 16 The Skyper tower, in the center of Frankfurt at Taunusanlage 1, was completed in December 2004. It has 38 floors and is 153.80 meters tall, which makes it the sixteenth tallest building in Frankfurt (as of 2020). Skyper is easy to recognize because of its Read More …
Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 15 The Marienturm, completed in 2019, is my nomination for Frankfurt’s most conspicuous mediocre building. While the developers praise its “elegant and clear architecture”, my impression is that it looks clunky and out of place among the more imaginative nearby Read More …
>> Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 14 << The two towers of the Deutsche Bank are highly reflective buildings, in fact one of them is reflected in the other in this photo. When they were completed in 1984 the neighbors in the Westend district were irritated because those Read More …
>> Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 13 << If you ask some local person how to get to the Westend Gate, formerly called the Plaza Büro Center, they probably won’t know what you’re talking about. We all just call it the Marriott, which is no wonder since the Read More …
For many years, the Drosselbart in Frankfurt-Eschersheim was a great place to eat, drink and socialize on warm summer evenings. They had a large garden, so you could usually still find a table even if the weather was fine and everybody was out. Together with family and friends, I think Read More …
>> Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 12 << The Silver Tower used to be the headquarters of the Dresdner Bank, which was gobbled up by some other bank during a recent financial crisis. The building’s main tenant is now the Deutsche Bahn or DB, Germany’s labyrinthine state-owned railway corporation, Read More …
My office in 2001 was on the fifth floor of a six-story building in the unfashionable Gallus quarter of Frankfurt. At around three in the afternoon (German time) on a Tuesday my colleague from the next office came in and told me she had just received a strange phone call Read More …
>> Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 11 << The OpernTurm, so called because it is across the street from the Old Opera, was opened in 2010. With an architectural height of 169.98 meters (according to Emporis), it is currently the eleventh tallest building in Frankfurt am Main, because it Read More …