MesseTurm - Frankfurt, Germany - Skyscrapers on Waymarking.com

Messeturm is a skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Its name translates as "Fair Tower" ("fair" in the sense of "trade fair") in German. It is the second tallest building in Germany and the also the second tallest in the European Union. Messeturm's ground floor area is just 1,681 m2 (18,090 sq ft). Messeturm is directly located in the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds. Helmut Jahn designed Messeturm in the Postmodern architectural style.

Used as an office building, Messeturm is 257 metres (840 ft) tall and has 63 floors. It was the tallest building in Europe from its completion in 1991 until 1997 when it was overtaken by the Commerzbank Tower, also located in Frankfurt, and only two meters taller.

The construction of the building's foundation set a world record for the longest continuous concrete pour. Ninety trucks poured concrete for 78 hours into the 6-metre (20 ft) deep foundation.

The 36.3 metres (119.1 ft) high pyramid on the very top of Messeturm is what makes it most remarkable among other usual skyscrapers.

Similar designs by other architects include the Bank of America Plaza (1992) in Atlanta, Georgia and the Key Tower (1991) in Cleveland, Ohio. Frankfurters often call it "The Pencil" due to its shape.

The tower uses numerous geometric shapes in its design such as the square footprint which is the main shape used throughout the tower. It then rises to a cylindrical shape which finally completes in a pyramid.

There are 900 parking places in a public parking garage and a direct connection to the subway.

The building also appears in the European tileset for the game SimCity 4.

Building Name: MesseTurm Structure Height: 840 Number of Stories: 63 Year Built: 1991 Architect/Design Firm: Murphy/Jahn Style: Post-Modern Use: Office Building Publicly accessible areas: Houses two restaurants in the basement, which are open to the public. Hours: Der Turm ist nicht für Besucher zugänglich Cost: Der Turm ist nicht für Besucher zugänglich Address: Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49 60308 Frankfurt am Main It is the only building in Germany with its own postal code (60308). Building Website: [Web Link] The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) link: [Web Link]

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