Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 20 Construction of the Frankfurter Büro Center was well underway in 1975, when the oil crisis brought work to a standstill. The building stood unfinished for four years while the financial and rental situation was sorted out. Then finally it was sold to a company Read More …
Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 19 This 142-meter building on Frankfurt’s Platz der Republik is now called the City-Haus or City-Hochhaus. I’ve always found it to be a pleasant place with a nice fountain at the front. You could even walk or cycle through a passageway at Read More …
Frankfurt Skyline Countdown # 18 One Forty West is a hotel and residential tower that was completed (more or less) in August 2020. The first twenty-three floors are (or are going to be) a Four-Star M‑‑‑á (or M‑‑‑ã) Hotel, whose opening has been postponed until March 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 Personally, I find Skyper one of the more elegant and interesting buildings in the Frankfurt skyline, but the dramatist, poet and historian Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) doesn’t seem to agree with me. Here he can be seen gazing in admiration at the Frankfurt Opera, which is 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 …