Gallileo

Gallileo is a 136 meter tall skyscraper at the corner of Gallusanlage and Kaiser Road near the station of Frankfurt am Main. Built in reinforced concrete frame and steel concrete composite construction building was begun according to plans by Novotny Mähner Associated 2000 and completed in Spring 2003. Gallileo is spelled with double L, derived from its address Gallusanlage 7

History

By 2008, the high-rise building served along with the Silver Tower and the building Gallusanlage 8 as the corporate headquarters of the Dresdner Bank. After the takeover of Dresdner Bank by Commerzbank, the new owner will use only the Gallileo skyscraper capable of. In June 2010, the old, the green logo of Dresdner Bank was replaced with the new yellow logo of Commerzbank.

Since 2003 located in the basement of the building The English Theatre. With 300 seats, it is the largest English-language theater on the European continent.

Architecture

The tower has 38 floors and 30,000 sqm of office space for 1,500 jobs. In publicly accessible ground floor there are shops, a bar and the English Theatre.

The facade consists largely of glass. It has 400 individual windows that form a 22,000 m² large transparent outer skin. The windows can be Exhibit parallel to the opening, which they break through the smooth surface in a characteristic way. (See picture on the left. )

In the glass floors of his installation "Light Shaft II" were integrated red, green, blue and white bright spotlight by American artist James Turrell in the frame, which allow the building to " glow " in the dark from the inside out in any color. The bulbs are structurally imperceptible. The undersides of the floor slabs are used here as reflective surfaces.