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General Information

Beginning of works: 2000
Completion: 2003
Status: in use

Project Type

Location

Location: , ,
Address: Westhafen / Speicherstraße
Coordinates: 50° 6' 4.55" N    8° 39' 51.82" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

height 112 m
number of floors (above ground) 31
number of floors (below ground) 5

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Westhafen Tower is a 109.826 m (360.32 ft) 30-storey skyscraper in the Gutleutviertel district of Frankfurt, Germany. The building was designed by the architects Schneider & Schumacher and was completed in 2004. The tower, whose name literally means "West Port Tower", is one of the first buildings at the former West Port.

Construction

From the outside, the building is shaped like a cylinder, but the storeys are square-shaped, creating 18 conservatories between the interior and exterior. Each of the 30 floors above ground has a rentable area of approximately 820 square metres. One of the architectural features is the rhomboid facade structure, with 3556 triangular panes of glass forming the outer skin.

The structure of the building's glass facade resembles the ribbed surface of a typical Frankfurtian cider glass. Therefore, the building is popularly called das Gerippte, literally meaning "the Ribbed". (see Geripptes )

A portion of the triangular segments of the glass can be automatically opened for ventilation purposes in the bottom corner. The floors are heated with under the windows recessed convectors as the cooling is done via a cooling ceiling.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Westhafen Tower" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20007978
  • Published on:
    05/02/2003
  • Last updated on:
    10/11/2023
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