Garden Tower

The Garden Tower is a skyscraper on the corner of Neue Mainzer Straße and New Schlesingergasse in downtown Frankfurt. The building was built in 1973-1976 for the Hesse Landesbank ( Helaba) and was then simply known as Helaba -Hochhaus. The realized on a design by Novotny Mähner Associated building was one of the first skyscrapers in Frankfurt's banking district. In 2005 it was reopened after a substantial refurbishment under its present name.

History

Until the renovation, the building was used by Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen, now several companies are (including the Germany subsidiary of Société Générale, Bank of New York Mellon Cerberus Capital Management, Huxley Associates and Frankfurter Sparkasse 1822 Private Banking ) represented in the high-rise. The state bank moved in 1999 instead of office space in the adjacent Main Tower.

Architecture

The Garden Tower consists of two towers, with the higher 127-meter towers. Tower A has 25 floors and Tower B 15 floors. The towers were completely gutted, so that all that remained was the steel -concrete skeleton. After the removal of asbestos they were re-clad, the polygonal shape of the structure remained unchanged. A structural feature of the Garden Towers are twelve conservatories, which were cut into the facade. Most office floors provide either a direct access to its own garden, or have a view of the two-storey conservatories.