Английская Википедия:Commerzbank Tower

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Commerzbank Tower is a 56-story, Шаблон:Convert skyscraper in the banking district of Frankfurt, Germany. An antenna spire with a signal light on top gives the tower a total height of Шаблон:Convert. It is the tallest building in Frankfurt and the tallest building in Germany. It had been the tallest building in Europe from its completion in 1997 until 2003, when it was surpassed by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow. Since the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, the tower had briefly reclaimed its position as the tallest building in the European Union only to lose the title again in 2021 when Poland's Varso Tower topped out. The Commerzbank Tower is only two metres taller than the Messeturm, which is also located in Frankfurt and was the tallest building in Europe before the construction of the Commerzbank Tower.

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 Шаблон:Convert 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 was allowed to display this sequence as a result of a competition.Шаблон:Sfn

In its immediate neighbourhood are other skyscrapers including the Eurotower (former home of the European Central Bank), the Main Tower, the Silberturm, the Japan Center and the Gallileo. The area forms Frankfurt's central business district, commonly known as Bankenviertel.

Features

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Garden on the 19th floor of Commerzbank Tower

When the building was planned in the early 1990s, Frankfurt's Green Party, who governed the city together with the Social Democratic Party, encouraged the Commerzbank to design a 'green' skyscraper. The result was the world's first so-called ecological skyscraper:Шаблон:Sfn besides the use of 'sky-gardens', environmentally friendly technologies were employed to reduce energy required for heating and cooling.Шаблон:Sfn

Sky gardens

Commerzbank Tower is shaped as a Шаблон:Convert wide rounded equilateral triangle with a central, triangular atrium. At nine different levels, the atrium opens up to one of the three sides, forming large sky gardens. These open areas allow more natural light in the building, reducing the need for artificial lighting.Шаблон:Sfn At the same time it ensures offices in the building's two other sides have a view of either the city or the garden.

In order to eliminate the need of supporting columns in the sky gardens, the building was constructed in steel rather than the conventional (and cheaper) concrete. It was the first skyscraper in Germany where steel was used as the main construction material.

In popular culture

• Commerzbank Tower appears under the name Hurt Enterprise Headquarters as a vanilla stage 8 Euro-Contemporary building set in SimCity 4 (Deluxe or with Rush Hour).
• In 2007, Wrebbit released a 3D puzzle from the Towers Made To Scale Collection, which includes Commerzbank Tower and Messeturm in one box-set.
• In his 2011 book Boomerang, Michael Lewis describes a meeting with a German financier who claimed the top of the Commerzbank Tower contains a glass room that serves as a men's toilet from which, he joked, one could, "in full view of the world below, [void one's bowels] on Deutsche Bank."Шаблон:Sfn

Gallery

• Commerzbank Tower at night, a focal point of the Frankfurt skyline

  Commerzbank Tower at night, a focal point of the Frankfurt skyline

• At night

  At night

• Seen from the top of the Main Tower

  Seen from the top of the Main Tower

• View from the Iron Bridge

  View from the Iron Bridge

• Street level view

  Street level view

• From Kaiserplatz

  From Kaiserplatz

• Southern view

  Southern view

• Close-up of the spire. Steam escapes from vents that are integrated into the spire cladding.

  Close-up of the spire. Steam escapes from vents that are integrated into the spire cladding.

• Entrance

  Entrance

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
• List of tallest buildings in Germany
• List of tallest buildings in the European Union
• List of skyscrapers

References

Books

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External links

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