Grand Tower (Frankfurt am Main)
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| Construction progress in February 2020 | ||
| Basic data | ||
| Place: | Frankfurt-Gallus | |
| Construction time : | February 2016 – June 2020 | |
| Opening: | 2020 | |
| Status : | completed | |
| Architect : | Magnus Kaminiarz & Cie | |
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 6 '30.3 " N , 8 ° 39' 16.3" E | |
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| Use / legal | ||
| Usage : | Tallest residential building in Germany | |
| Apartments : | 413 | |
| Owner : | Condominiums | |
| Client : | GSP Städtebau GmbH | |
| Technical specifications | ||
| Height : | 180 m | |
| Floors : | 47 | |
| Floor area : | 32,600 m² | |
| Height comparison | ||
| Frankfurt am Main : | 9. ( list ) | |
| Germany : | 9. ( list ) | |
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| Address: | Osloer Strasse / Europa-Allee | |
| Post Code: | 60327 | |
| City: | Frankfurt am Main | |
| Country: | Germany | |
The Grand Tower (formerly Tower 2 ) is a high-rise in the Europaviertel in Frankfurt am Main, which was completed in 2020 . With a height of 180 meters, it is Germany's highest high-rise residential building, replacing the 147-meter-high Cologne Colonia House built in 1973 . The tower is located next to the Skyline-Plaza shopping center . The developer states the total investment at around 250 million euros.
The Grand Tower is considered to be the first residential high-rise in Germany to be marketed globally; with the Asian, Arab and North American markets being the main focus.
Planning and construction
Construction began in February 2016. The property developer gsp Städtebau GmbH is responsible for the project development. After winning the competition in 2014, the architecture came from the Frankfurt architecture firm Magnus Kaminiarz & Cie . The exclusive distribution is carried out by Jones Lang LaSalle . The structural work was carried out by the family company Karl Gemünden GmbH & Co. KG from Ingelheim. 25% of the apartments were sold before construction began; at the beginning of 2018, 97% of the apartments had already been sold. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated in September 2018. Completion was initially planned for 2019. On June 10, 2020, gsp Städtebau announced the completion of the building. The first residents should move in during the same month.
Characteristic of the building are the diamond-shaped floor plan, the floor-to-ceiling glazing and the rounded loggia elements.
The architects circumvent the problem of darkened core rooms in the high-rise building by arranging bathrooms and utility rooms along the wall facing the ring corridor. This enables more daylight in the living rooms and bedrooms along the facade.
use
Upon completion, the 47 floors of the Grand Tower contained space for 413 condominiums with a total of 32,600 square meters of living space and individual sizes between 48 and 300 square meters. Initially, 401 apartments were planned. The average prices for the apartments are 8,700 euros per square meter. The prices quoted by JLL for the completion of the remaining apartments, however, result in a top price of up to 30,000 euros per square meter. Depending on the floor, size, equipment and time of acquisition, the purchase price ranges between 634,000 and 9.1 million euros. Social or medium-sized apartments are not provided in the building. At the time of completion, five apartments had not been sold, including a penthouse.
At a height of 141 meters, there is a 150 square meter “sunset deck” for the residents. In addition, there is the so-called "Grand Terrace" designed as a garden with around 1,000 square meters on the seventh floor. A concierge service is also available. An adjacent multi-storey car park offers a total of 427 parking spaces on three floors below ground and eight floors above ground.
Awards
- International Property Awards 2017–2018, Best Residential High-Rise Architecture category and Best Marketing Europe category
- International Property Award 2017, Category Residential High-Rise Europe
- German Design Award 2017, category residential buildings
- European Property Awards, Best Development Marketing Germany 2017–2018
- European Property Awards, Best Residential High-Rise Development and Best Residential High-Rise Architecture Germany 2017–2018, category residential buildings
- German Design Award 2017, Category Excellent Communications Design Books and Calendars
Controversy
Critics describe the building as a “tower for the rich” and see the problem of housing shortages in Frankfurt not being solved by projects such as the Grand Tower. Frankfurt states that it will need 50,000 apartments for 2017. Project developers are to provide 30 percent subsidized living space per project in the city.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frankfurt: Germany's tallest residential building is ready. Immobilien Zeitung , June 12, 2020, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
- ^ Regine Herrmann: High, exclusive, expensive: Frankfurter Grand Tower , Allgemeine Zeitung , December 21, 2017
- ↑ gsp Städtebau GmbH: Germany's tallest residential high-rise is called the Grand Tower
- ^ Zabel Property GmbH: Grand Tower, Frankfurt
- ^ A b Günter Murr: Apartment towers: Frankfurt has the highest - and most expensive - penthouses in Germany . In: Taunus Zeitung . ( taunus-zeitung.de [accessed on January 7, 2018]).
- ^ Highest residential tower in Germany: "Grand Tower" in Frankfurt celebrates the topping-out ceremony . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 21, 2018]).
- ↑ BauNetz Media GmbH: Start of construction in Frankfurt - Germany's tallest residential tower by Magnus Kaminiarz & Cie. In: BauNetz . September 14, 2016 ( baunetz.de [accessed October 14, 2017]).
- ↑ BauNetz Media GmbH: Start of construction in Frankfurt - Germany's tallest residential tower by Magnus Kaminiarz & Cie. In: BauNetz . September 14, 2016 ( baunetz.de [accessed October 14, 2017]).
- ↑ A skyscraper for the rich. Allgemeine Zeitung , December 21, 2017, accessed December 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Rolf Obertreis: Live right at the top . In: Der Tagesspiegel Online . October 7, 2018, ISSN 1865-2263 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed October 8, 2018]).
- ↑ Frankfurt: Germany's tallest residential building is ready. Immobilien Zeitung , June 12, 2020, accessed on June 12, 2020 .
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: Living in Frankfurt: Germany's tallest residential tower is growing . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on October 14, 2017]).
- ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Luxury apartments: Frankfurt in the heights rush. August 29, 2017. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Helga Einecke: Living higher . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 1, 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed October 14, 2017]).
- ↑ Grand Tower in Frankfurt is the European winner at the International Property Award. konii, December 12, 2017, accessed December 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Best residential high-rise in Europe is in Frankfurt - International Property Award for the Grand Tower . In: Journal Frankfurt . ( journal-frankfurt.de ).
- ↑ Zabel Property - Kaminiarz & Cie. wins German Design Award for Grand Tower. (No longer available online.) November 1, 2017, archived from the original on November 8, 2017 ; accessed on December 22, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Zabel Property has received several awards at Europe Property Awards. Zabel Property, November 7, 2017, accessed December 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Grand Tower won three times at the European Property Award. gsp stadtebau, November 2, 2017, accessed on December 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Grand Tower won three times at the European Property Award. konii, November 2, 2017, accessed December 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Grand Tower Imagebook. German Design Award, accessed on December 22, 2017 . }
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau: "Grand Tower": A tower for the rich . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . ( fr.de [accessed on October 14, 2017]).
- ↑ Housing shortage: who owns the city? Frankfurter Neue Presse, October 20, 2018, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
