The Commerzbank Tower is a 56-story office skyscraper at Kaiserplatz 1 in Frankfurt banking district, designed by Foster and Partners under Norman Foster with Arup and Krebs and Kiefer as structural engineers. Completed in 1997, it rises 258.7 meters to its roof and 300.1 meters including its antenna, making it Germany tallest building. Marketed as the world first ecological skyscraper, it is built around a triangular atrium with sky gardens set at nine different levels that bring daylight into the tower and reduce its need for artificial lighting, and it was among the first German skyscrapers to use a steel rather than concrete structural frame. It briefly held the title of tallest building in the European Union after the United Kingdom left the EU, until Poland Varso Tower surpassed it in 2021.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountFrankfurt-Innenstadt I, Germany 2 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Commerzbank Tower (Wikipedia)
Uses Element
Source Commerzbank Tower (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
Sources
1. Commerzbank Tower (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation- infobox building_type/type field: Office
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Commerzbank Tower is a 56-story office skyscraper at Kaiserplatz 1 in Frankfurt banking district, designed by Foster and Partners under Norman Foster with Arup and Krebs and Kiefer as structural engineers. Completed in 1997, it rises 258.7 meters to its roof and 300.1 meters including its antenna, making it Germany tallest building. Marketed as the world first ecological skyscraper, it is built around a triangular atrium with sky gardens set at nine different levels that bring daylight into the tower and reduce its need for artificial lighting, and it was among the first German skyscrapers to use a steel rather than concrete structural frame. It briefly held the title of tallest building in the European Union after the United Kingdom left the EU, until Poland Varso Tower surpassed it in 2021.
Wikipedia infobox building_type field (Office)
building_type = Office
In Style: Postmodern Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Postmodern architecture in Germany
Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia article
In order to eliminate the need of supporting columns in the sky gardens, the building was constructed in steel rather than the conventional (and cheaper) concrete.
View the Source 2. Commerzbank Tower (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1997)
Wikidata item Q151765, property P571: 1997
Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 300.1
Wikidata item Q151765, property P2048 (height): 300.1 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Frankfurt-Innenstadt I, Germany
Wikidata item Q151765, property P131/P17 (location): Frankfurt-Innenstadt I, Germany
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