General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Office building |
|---|---|
| Plan view: |
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Location
| Location: |
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany |
|---|---|
| Address: | Westhafen / Speicherstraße |
| Coordinates: | 50° 6' 4.55" N 8° 39' 51.82" E |
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 July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2002): Architekturführer Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurt am Main Architectural Guide. 3rd edition, Dietrich Riemer Verlag, Berlin (Germany), pp. 115.
- (2003): Innovative Hochhausfassaden: Swiss Re Konzernzentrale und Westhafen-Tower. In: Detail - Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail, v. 43, n. 7-8 ( 2003), pp. 820.
- (2004): Neues Stadtquartier Westhafen. Struktur und Elemente. In: [ Umrisse ], v. 4, n. 5-6 ( 2004), pp. 11-15.
- Westhafen-Tower Frankfurt/Main. In: Stahlbau, v. 73, n. 3 (March 2004), pp. 169.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20007978 - Published on:
05/02/2003 - Last updated on:
10/11/2023
