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An architectural tour for Frankfurt residents and visitors who are interested in highs and lows
Since 2023 we also offer Skyline tours in cooperation with the SKYLINE ATLAS!
The air was good on the western outskirts, where the Frankfurt merchants and bankers settled down to the 19th century. In the place of their residential and commercial buildings are now the bank skyscrapers. Recently, residential and hotel towers are still being pushed in between. The air in the office tower construction had become a little thinner.
The unique skyline has become Frankfurt's trademark. In the sixties confusedly started in the Westend, with justifiably much protest against it, the skyscraper development now (mostly) along predetermined axes of the high-rise building plan takes place.
High-rise construction has always been about accommodating many workplaces in a small space and at the same time about status symbols for the builders. Now sustainability has been added as a further criterion.
Between the skyscrapers of domestic and foreign financial institutions and nationally and internationally influential companies, residential and hotel skyscrapers or towers with mixed use are increasingly emerging. If urban planning was the first thing to do so, to make the city more lively, the large demand for housing will now be met and investments will be secured by combating the use of crises in individual sectors.
At the same time, an increasing variety of designs has been observed since 2010. During our architectural tours we explain the 'belly swing' of the Omniturm or the dynamic twisted towers in the project Four Frankfurt.
Frankfurt was quickly compared to Manhattan. The fact that Frankfurt is also noticed there is proven by the New York investors Tishman & Speyer, who have been active in Frankfurt for years and have paved the way for a number of striking skyscrapers to reach the sky.
The highest, the most innovative, the first, the newest, the most economical, the banking gorge, water cushion foundations and swimming pool in the penthouse, rises and falls in the financial sector, two Reichstag architects side by side - let us tell you all about it during our high-rise architecture tours.
project selection
skyscrapers
- Commerzbank (Sir Norman Forster)
- Taunusturm (Gruber Kleine-Kranenburg Architects)
- Omniturm (Bjarke Ingels Group)
- Four Frankfurt (UN Studio)
- Japan Tower (Ganz & Rolfes)
- MainTower (Schweger & Partner)
- Opera Tower (Christoph Mäckler Architects)
- Deutsche Bank (ABB)
- Triton (Novotny & Mähner ; HPP ; AS & P)
- Kronen high-rise (Kohn, Pedersen, Fox)
- Marienturm (Müller Reimann Architects)
- Silver Tower (ABB)
