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Messeturm

Messeturm is a well-known skyscraper

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in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Germany

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. Its name translates as "Fair Tower" ("fair" in the sense of "trade fair") in German

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. It is the second tallest building in Germany

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and the also the second tallest in the European Union

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. Messeturm's ground floor area is just . Messeturm is directly located in the Frankfurt Trade Fair

Frankfurt Trade Fair

Frankfurt Trade Fair is the most important congress exhibition corporations with extensive trade fair grounds in Frankfurt, Germany.A tall Hammering Man sculpture stands on the pavement near its main entrance....
grounds. Helmut Jahn

Helmut Jahn

Helmut Jahn is a German-American architecture, designer of dozens of major buildings throughout the world.Some of the better known among his creations are the US$800 million Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, the Messeturm in Frankfurt and the One Liberty Place, formerly the tallest building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
designed Messeturm in the Postmodern architectural

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style.

Used as an office building, Messeturm is 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

Commerzbank Tower

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Messeturm is a well-known skyscraper

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Germany

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. Messeturm's ground floor area is just . Messeturm is directly located in the Frankfurt Trade Fair

Frankfurt Trade Fair

Helmut Jahn

Postmodern architecture

Commerzbank Tower

Commerzbank Tower is a skyscraper located in the city centre of Frankfurt, Germany. After it was completed in 1997 it ranked as the List of tallest buildings in Europe until 2005 when it was surpassed by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow....
, 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 deep foundation.

The 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

Bank of America Plaza (Atlanta)

The Bank of America Plaza is a skyscraper located in Midtown Atlanta. Standing 1,023 ft , it ranks as the 30th tallest building in the world. It is also the tallest building in North America outside of Chicago and New York City, Georgia's tallest building, and the tallest building in any U.S....
(1992) in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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and the Key Tower

Key Tower

Key Tower is a skyscraper on Public Square in Downtown Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio designed by architect C?sar Pelli. It is the List of tallest buildings in Cleveland in both the city of Cleveland and the state of Ohio, the List of tallest buildings in the United States in the United States, and the List of tallest buildings in the world....
(1991) in Cleveland, Ohio

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. 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.

It is the only building in Germany with its own postal code

Postal code

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(60308).

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

SimCity 4

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