BHF Bank high-rise
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| BHF-Bank high-rise and annex buildings from the southeast, March 2012 | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Bockenheimer Landstrasse 10 ( Westend-Süd ) |
| Construction time : | 1962-65 |
| Architect : | Sep call |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | Company headquarters |
| Owner : | BHF bank |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 82 m |
| Floors : | 23 upper floors |
| Height comparison | |
| Frankfurt am Main : | 43. ( list ) |
| address | |
| City: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Country: | Germany |
The BHF-Bank high-rise is a high-rise on Bockenheimer Landstrasse (house number 10) in the west end of Frankfurt am Main and the headquarters of Oddo BHF . It was built in 1962–65 based on a design by Sep Ruf and was the tallest building in Frankfurt at 82 meters and 23 floors when it opened.
history
The Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft , or BHG for short, was a Berlin bank founded in 1856 that had to cease business after the Second World War . In 1948 it moved its headquarters to Frankfurt am Main .
In 1970 it merged with Frankfurter Bank to create the new Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank, or BHF-Bank for short . It was only in the course of the merger that there was an increased need for office space and the move into the high-rise, which had already been completed five years earlier. This was built in the west of Rothschild Park , the development of which was almost completely destroyed in World War II.
In the 1990s, the BHF-Bank pursued the plan to replace the building with a much larger new building due to the increased space requirement, but the city did not approve this project and finally placed the high-rise under monument protection . The private bank then had an extension built in Offenbach am Main to solve the office space problem.
architecture
The main building in the south of the site has a square floor plan of 25 × 25 meters and was made of reinforced concrete skeleton . This was originally a facade with parapets made of white, Yugoslav Carrara marble . In a recent renovation, the natural stone was replaced by plastic cladding.
Building decoration is completely absent, as is typical of the time. The building is structured horizontally by the alternation of all-round ribbon windows and the dark parapet fields, vertically by a steel frame construction with regular intervals. Shortly before the flat but high roof end with the company logo, the glass facade jumps back for a few floors with the rods running in the same alignment. This gives the roof an impression that is detached from the statics. In the north-west, the building is followed by an elongated, rectangular extension, and to this in the north-east there is another two-story, square - shaped extension.
In 2001 the sculpture bridging the gap by the sculptor Volker Bartsch was installed in front of the BHF high-rise building on Bockenheimer Landstrasse. The 9.8 ton bronze sculpture with the dimensions 5 by 6 by 7.50 meters was welded in five months using around 60,000 meters of bronze wire.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erich Erlenbach: An anniversary in the year of the golden mean. The Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank celebrates 25 years of its history . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 12, 1980, p. 17.
- ↑ Art in public space Frankfurt
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 59.1 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 6.6 ″ E