Japan Center
| Japan Center | |
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| Basic data | |
| Place: | Taunustor 2 ( city center ) |
| Construction time : | 1993-1996 |
| Opening: | March 1997 |
| Renovation: | 2006 |
| Architect : | Joachim Ganz, Walter Rolfes |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | office building |
| Client : | Jowa Japan Center GmbH |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 115.3 m |
| Depth: | 36.9 m |
| Floors : | 27 upper floors, 4 lower floors |
| Usable area : | 26,000 m² |
| Floor area : | 1,100 m² |
| Building material : | Reinforced concrete |
| Height comparison | |
| Frankfurt am Main : | 23. ( list ) |
| Germany : | 43. ( list ) |
| address | |
| City: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Country: | Germany |
The Japan Center is a high-rise in the financial district of Frankfurt am Main . The 115 meter high building was completed in 1996.
The building has four basement floors below street level, with an underground car park on the lowest three floors. This is followed by the base of the high-rise office building, consisting of a transparent base zone with an arcade in which there is a café. The first floor was designed as a conference center for events; the largest of the four conference rooms can accommodate up to 360 people. Above the lower building services center on the 2nd floor, which is tapered in plan, there are 21 office floors with a rentable area of around 26,900 m². A second building services center is located on the 24th floor , and a restaurant on the 25th floor , which serves as a canteen and is operated by a catering company. In the top of the skyscraper with two additional floors there are some offices and further building services systems are installed to supply the upper floors. The square floor plan with the dimensions of 36.9 mx 36.9 m also has a square core in its center, which, in addition to nine elevators and two emergency staircases, contains all the shafts for building services.
The building, designed by the Berlin architect Joachim Ganz, with its terracotta-colored natural stone cladding and strictly geometric shapes, corresponds to classic Japanese design. The basic dimensions derived from the Japanese tatami mat (0.9 m × 1.8 m) (here doubled to a square) and the protruding roof of the house, which costs around 200 million euros, are reminiscent of the shape of a Japanese stone lantern .
The facade structure looks as if six-storey, one-hip office wings were stacked one on top of the other, rotated by 90 °. All six floors alternate large and small perforated windows, which at the same time reflect the use inside. Open-plan offices with a room depth of 10.5 m are located behind the large windows, and single-room offices behind the small windows.
The European Central Bank has rented around 93 percent of the total rental space. Since the new building of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt's Ostend does not offer enough space for the employees of the uniform banking supervision , they are to work in the former headquarters in the Eurotower on Willy-Brandt-Platz. The lease in the Japan Center was initially only supposed to exist for the duration of the upcoming refurbishment of the Eurotower, but was extended in 2015 until 2025. Other tenants in the Japan Center were the management consultancy McKinsey , the corporate finance boutique First Capital Partners, the financial advisory firm Accuracy, Akbank AG and the law firm Allen & Overy . The German branch of the international Ashoka organization was also housed in McKinsey's premises .
See also
Web links
- Entry via Japan Center at Emporis
- Japan Center. In: Structurae
- Japan Center at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
- Japan Center at thehighrisepages
- Japan Center at SkylineFFM.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.baunetz.de/meldung/Mommunikations_Eroeffnung_des_Japan_Centers_in_Frankfurt_M._1091.html
- ^ Josef Hegger, Jürgen Burkhardt: "Taunustor" high-rise building in Frankfurt am Main - high-strength concrete B 105 . In: Beton- und Stahlbetonbau , Vol. 92, 1997, p. 190
- ↑ Immobilienmanager.de: Frankfurt: ECB rents complete Japan Center. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau: Banking supervision in Frankfurt: Controllers in the Japan Center. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
- ^ Frankfurter Neue Presse: ECB stays in Japan Center. March 22, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2018 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 40 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 21 ″ E