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 …
>> 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 …
>> 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 …
>> Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 10 << Currently there are two skyscrapers in Frankfurt which are listed as being 170 meters tall. This is the “architectural height”, which includes spires and other such permanent features, but does not include external things like flagpoles, antennae, or signage, Read More …
>> Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 9 << Frankfurt’s new Grand Tower doesn’t strike me as being particularly grand, I must admit. It looks to me like some sort of oversized radiator. But after a few years I’m sure we’ll all get accustomed to it, and after a while Read More …
>> Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 8 << The new headquarters building of the European Central Bank (ECB) has 45 floors above ground level and is 184 meters high, making it the eighth tallest building in Frankfurt as of 2020. The building on the right in my photo is the Frankfurt Read More …