Frankfurter Büro Center

The Frankfurter Büro Center (also known as FBC ) is a skyscraper in the Westend of Frankfurt am Main. The 142.4 -meter-high building is located at Mainzer Landstrasse in the middle of a chain of high-rise buildings, which runs from Republic Square to the Opera Square. The western high-rise neighbor is Westend Straße 1, the eastern Trianon.

The construction of the tower was stuck in 1975 by the oil crisis in the shell. Until 1979 was due to the substantial construction cost and leasing risks, no buyer. The ECE project development company reached an agreement with owners and craftsmen and developed a construction completion and technical improvement as well as a rental concept. In 1981, the high-rise building with approximately 52,000 square meters of gross floor area ( 40 upper and two basement levels ) are finally completed.

Building's architect is Richard Heil from Frankfurt. The house belonged from 1985 to 2007 the basic value fund, an open-ended property fund of the Dresdner Bank subsidiary DEGI. As of April 30 2007, around 17,000 m² on the ground of the total of approximately 47,600 m² of office space yet - 19th floor not rented. So, the occupancy rate was approximately 65%. The main tenant is the international law firm Clifford Chance, which it maintains its largest of three offices in Germany.

On the square in front of the skyscraper a 21 m high sculpture of the artist Claus Bury in 1997 erected.

With the renovation of the lobby ( Just.Burgeff. Architects ) in the first quarter of 2007, growing with the Café " Face to Face", was today joined Bistro " Nonna ", which is also a bar and lounge is at the same time. The foyer, the adjacent cafe and the grounds are completely redesigned and to the motto " Modern Classics " embody. The new architecture has the FBC, like many of his kindred buildings in Manhattan, a stem as input area, the more open the building visually and functionally into the public space back.

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The Frankfurt office center from the south