Tower 185

The Tower 185 is a skyscraper in the district of Gallus Frankfurt am Main near Frankfurt's exhibition grounds and adjacent to the development area 'European Quarter. The construction of the double tower began in August 2008 and was completed in December 2011, where he has (including technical floors ) reaches a total height of 200 meters. Thus, the Tower 185 is together with the Main Tower is the fourth tallest skyscraper in Germany.

Planning

As early as 1998 the city of Frankfurt decided in the first high-rise building master plan that the building of the former headquarters of Deutsche Bahn may differ from the Friedrich- Ebert-Anlage 35-37 an approximately 185 meter high-rise. In the following years was from this project, however, nothing to hear.

In early 2007, the existing buildings were demolished after the site lay fallow. In summer 2007, various newspapers reported that a lease agreement between the property owner Vivico and the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PwC) was regarding the Tower 185 is closed. This was confirmed officially was introduced in May 2008 as the public project. Reason for the delay was apparent that Vivico for the realization of the tower still needed a neighboring property, which was owned by the State of Hesse. In May 2008, the property went into the hands of Vivico.

PwC has 66,000 square meters of a total of approximately 100,000 square feet of office space rented long term and has here the new Germany - based headquarters of the company. So far, the company headquarters was located in Frankfurt Mertonviertel. By the end of 2010, the base building of the Tower 185 was completed and occupied by some departments of PwC.

Design

The design for the Tower 185 was provided by the Frankfurt architect Christoph Mackler. It provides for a horseshoe-shaped base building, from which the two multi-storey sections with an aluminum and glass facade. These surround a round central glass structure. At least 25 percent of the energy costs of a "normal " high-rise building should be saved, 185, according to Mäckler the Tower.

The building will achieve a certification of international quality label LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ). LEED defines standards for environmentally friendly, resource-efficient, sustainable building. Nevertheless, care was taken that very many windows jobs are being created and the windows one Fresh air gap can be opened wide.

Construction

After August 2008, the first work had begun on the property, with the participation of Frankfurt's Mayor Petra Roth, PwC CEO Hans Wagener and Mäckler was symbolically set the first sod on 29 September 2008. Wilhelm Brandt, spokesman for the project developer Vivico, called the developing European Quarter "the biggest construction site in Central Europe ". At the celebration of new renderings of the winning draft of Mäckler were presented that showed an altered roof edge of the tower and close reasoned that the height of the tower including the technology structures had risen over 185 meters. About the total amount was then long speculated to Vivico then in June 2010 announced on Twitter: The Tower 185 is 200 meters high.

On 1 June 2010, the shell reached ( which was executed by the company Hochtief Solutions AG), the height of 100 meters, the end of 2010 the total amount was reached; the shell was completed with the last ceiling deadline on March 2, 2011. The office tower was completed and occupied in early 2012.

Vivico planned at that time to build in the neighborhood of Tower 185, a shopping and conference center with two high-rise buildings for office and hotel use (Skyline Plaza ) and other office and residential buildings. The construction of the Skyline Plaza is now complete.

Name

The name Tower 185 dates back to an early planning stage, referring to the height of 185 meters, which was initially designed for the high-rise. Although it eventually increased the building height to 200 meters, the name was not changed.

Tenant

The main tenant is the PwC AG and the law firm Mayer Brown. Since March 2012, the Excellent Business Center known as another tenant with 1,450 m² of rental space.

Excavation (February 2009)

Construction ( October 2009)

Construction (March 2010)

Construction (August 2010)

Construction (September 2010)

Main entrance (north, January 2011)

Tower ( north side, January 2011)

Tower (south side, January 2011)

Tower 185 and Pollux ( July 2011)

Tower 185 in Frankfurt skyline (July 2011)

Tower 185 during the Luminal in 2012 as the world's largest " ring the bell "