Deutsche Bank IBCF

Deutsche Bank IBCF
	Deutsche Bank IBCF from the southwest, March 2012
Basic data
Place:	Große Gallusstraße 10-14 ( city center )
Construction time :	1969-1971
Abort :	2018
Architectural style :	International style
Architect :	F. Wilhelm Simon
Use / legal
Usage :	Office and bank building
Owner :	Deutsche Bank
Client :	Deutsche Bank
Technical specifications
Height :	93 m
Floors :	21st
Height comparison
Frankfurt am Main :	36. ( list )
address
City:	Frankfurt am Main

The Deutsche Bank Investment Banking Center Frankfurt (IBCF) was a 93 meter high skyscraper in the Große Gallusstrasse (house number 10-14) in the city center of Frankfurt am Main and served as the center for the investment banking division of Deutsche Bank . It was built in 1969–71 based on a design by the architect F. Wilhelm Simon and was one of the few high-rise buildings of this generation that has remained largely unchanged since then. After Deutsche Bank sold the skyscraper and the surrounding land (the Deutsche Bank triangle ) in 2015, the skyscraper was demolished between April and October 2018 as part of the redevelopment of the area. It is to be replaced by several towers from the Four project ; completion is Template: future / in 3 yearsplanned for 2023 .

architecture

The building stood on an elongated, rectangular parcel with a north-east-south-west orientation. The majority of the built-up area was made up of an elongated, seven-story wing in the southwest. A slightly lower, mostly glazed annex connected to this in the northern courtyard. In the north-east of the parcel there was a 21-story skyscraper , also on a rectangular floor plan, but in the same alignment as the main building with Grosse Gallusstrasse .

The uniform design of the side wing and high-rise building was shaped by the later phase of the international style . Each floor had all-round ribbon windows ; the small parapet areas as well as a part of the lower annex building in the south-west that was cut out by the curtain wall were clad with dark natural stone. The curtain wall was made of dark brown steel, which realized horizontally surrounding balconies with parapets and vertically faded poles.