Westhafen Tower

The Western Harbour Tower is a skyscraper in Gutleutviertel of Frankfurt am Main. The 112.3 meter high building was designed by the architects Schneider Schumacher and completed in 2004. The Western Harbour Tower is one of the first buildings at the former West harbor. To the harbor basin has produced since 2000 in addition to office buildings and apartments.

Building construction

The tower has the shape of a cylinder with a diameter of 37.5 meters. Since the floors are arranged as squares, created between the interior and exterior facade 18 conservatories. Each of the 30 above-ground floors has a lettable area of ​​about 820 square meters. Architectural feature is the diamond- like facade structure. 3,556 triangular glass panes to form the outer skin. The one - " typical Frankfurtian " - apple wine glass structure similar to the glazing brought the skyscraper popularly called " The Rib " one.

A portion of the triangular segments of the glass façade can be automatically opened for ventilation purposes at the lower corner. The floors are heated with recessed convectors under the windows, while the cooling is done by a cooling blanket.

Others

In Westhafentower is, inter alia, to the European Supervisory Authority for Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA ).

In the opening credits of the ProSieben news program " News Time" is the middle of a computer-animated skyscraper landscape consisting of Frankfurt skyscrapers, the Westhafentower to see. Through a computer- animated TV station logo on the exterior façade to be suggesting that the newsroom would be in the high-rise. The initial screen, taken from the perspective of the top of the Main Tower, shows the Westhafentower in much larger scale at Taunusanlage between Trianon and the twin towers of Deutsche Bank.

The Westhafentower inspired in color ( Petrol ) and pattern (diamonds a " Schoppe glass" ), the design of the used starting in autumn 2013 Dodge shirts Eintracht Frankfurt, called the jersey " ribbed ".