Opernturm
The Opera Tower (own spelling: Opera Tower ) is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main. The tower stands in the district Westend-Süd opposite the Alte Oper on the corner Bock Landstraße and Reuterweg. Architect of the skyscraper is the Frankfurter Professor Christoph Mackler, project developers is the US-based Tishman Speyer Properties, which has already been built in Germany, the Sony Center in Berlin and Frankfurt Trade Fair Tower and is the owner of Aculeums. The main tenant of the OpernTurm is UBS AG Germany, which has leased 28,000 sqm of office space and moved into their new Germany headquarters here in early 2010. The end of 2010 the opera tower for around 550 million euros was purchased by a joint venture between the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation and an institutional fund.
Construction
The Opera Tower consists of a high-rise building with 170 m height and 42 floors. It is accessed by a 18 meter high lobby. For Opera Square completes a podium building with seven floors from the overall ensemble. Thanks to a uniform yellow beige stone cladding of the facades it to blend in with the existing buildings around the Opera Square one. The Opera Tower is 23 percent less energy than required by the Energy Saving Regulation EnEV 2007. After completion, it will be one of the first office buildings ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ) certified with the LEED Gold environmental standard in Europe. LEED defines standards for environmentally friendly, resource-efficient and sustainable building.
Architectural History
Where now rises the Opera Tower, was erected in 1960 Zurich - house until 2002. The 68 meter high tower was listed one of the first skyscrapers in Frankfurt. In 1998, the Zurich Insurance, the owner of the property, develop the architectural firm Mäckler a draft for a 22 m high building. In order to maximize the use of space, the building was very wide and appeared stocky. The Zurich Insurance hit the city before then, the new high-rise building 160 meters high, but to expand it through the demolition of other buildings on their property adjacent Rothschildpark to Bock Landstraße. After much political controversy and the personal commitment Christoph Mäckler the city agreed to the proposal. In 2002, the Zurich - house and all other buildings were demolished on the property. When the Zurich insurance based on its own economic problems, the new building did not begin, they sold the brownfield site in July 2004 to the project developer Tishman Speyer.
End of 2006, the civil engineering began with the demolition of the former garage of the Zurich - tower. The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the opera tower was on 22 January 2007, the foundation stone was laid on September 4, 2007. Late 2008 the shell of the opera tower was finished, the topping- out ceremony was held on February 6, 2009.
Entrance hall
In the foyer of the opera tower hangs a made from used canvas 12 feet high and forty feet wide screen. The painting entitled Ahab was made by the New York artist Julian Schnabel, showing a bloodstained black whale and a stylized white swan. Provide as a reversal of terms from the financial world white whale and black swan dar.
Tenant
In November 2009, moved to the department store Manufactum the first tenant in the podium building of the Opera Tower. Other agreements have been signed with the law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Ashurst LLP, Allen & Overy LLP and K & L Gates, Cerberus Germany, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and the Excellent Business Centers GmbH, so - including the main tenant UBS - opera tower to 85 percent is rented. The tenant improvements plan is prepared by the Frankfurt-based architectural office MOW general planning, that was already entrusted with the implementation planning of architecture.
Others
The adjoining Rothschild Park was enlarged to 5,500 m² and redesigned in the style of an English garden. Two newly created entrances connect the Rothschildpark to Opera Square.
The opera tower belongs beside the Frankfurt Trade Fair Tower and the Squaire to the three buildings in Frankfurt with its own ZIP code ( 60306 ).