Messeturm

The Messeturm, or Trade Fair Tower, is a 63-storey, 257 m (843 ft)[5] skyscraper in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is the second tallest building in Frankfurt, the second tallest building in Germany and the second tallest building in the European Union. It was the tallest building in Europe from its completion in 1991 until 1997 when it was surpassed by the Commerzbank Tower, which is also located in Frankfurt.

For other buildings with the same name, see Basler Messeturm and Messeturm Köln.
Messeturm
General information
TypeCommercial offices
Architectural styleArt Deco, Postmodern
LocationFriedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49
Frankfurt
Hesse, Germany
Coordinates50°06′44″N 8°39′10″E
Construction started13 July 1988
OpeningOctober 1990
CostDM500 million
OwnerTishman Speyer Properties
Height
Roof257 m (843 ft)
Top floor228 m (748 ft)
Technical details
Floor count63
2 below ground
Floor area61,711 m2 (664,300 sq ft)
Design and construction
ArchitectHelmut Jahn
Richard Murphy
DeveloperTishman Speyer Properties
CitiBank
Structural engineerIngenieurbüro Fritz Nötzold
Main contractorHOCHTIEF AG
References
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The Messeturm is located near the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds. Helmut Jahn designed the Messeturm in a postmodern architectural style. It is regarded as one of the design classics among European skyscrapers. Despite its name, the Messeturm is not used for trade fair exhibitions but as an office building. It is one of the few buildings in Germany with their own postal code (60308), the others being Opernturm, another Frankfurt skyscraper, and the summit station on Zugspitze.

Design

The Messeturm is similar in design to towers by other architects including the Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia and Key Tower (1991) in Cleveland, Ohio. Frankfurters often call it Bleistift ("pencil") due to its shape. The construction of the building's foundation set a world record for the longest continuous concrete pour. Ninety trucks poured concrete for 78 hours into the 6-metre (20 ft) deep foundation. Its ground floor area is just 1,681 m2 (18,090 sq ft), and features a 36.3 m (119.1 ft) pyramid at the top.

The tower uses numerous geometric shapes in its design such as the square footprint which is the main shape used throughout the tower. It then rises to a cylindrical shape which finally completes in a pyramid, probably as expression of the masonry.

There are 900 parking places in a public parking garage and a direct connection to the subway.

  • SimCity series
    • MesseTurm appears under the name Hogan Wallace and White Insurance as a vanilla stage 8 Euro-Contemporary building set in SimCity 4 (Deluxe or with Rush Hour).[6]
    • There is a building that has a similar appearance to the Messeturm in SimCity 3000.

[7]

  • The inner city ring with Messeturm in the background
  • Messeturm at sunset
  • Messeturm at night
  • Messeturm from street level

See also

References
  1. "Messeturm". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
  2. Messeturm at Emporis
  3. "Messeturm". SkyscraperPage.
  4. Messeturm at Structurae
  5. "MesseTurm". Frankfurt.de (in German). City of Frankfurt. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  6. "Sim City 4 Building Index". simcity4buildings.net. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  7. MesseTurm Frankfurt - The famous Art Deco Skyscraper in Frankfurt
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