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Eurotower (Frankfurt am Main)

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The building has since been hosting the European Central Bank's supervisory arm, with around 1,400 employees working from the site. In 2023, the bank announced plans to abandon the building and move to the
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of Frankfurt. This was originally envisaged to bring together all the bank's personnel in one place, however with the increase in the ECB's responsibilities with the entry into force of
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Because of the limited space in the Eurotower the personnel of the ECB were also (up to March 2015) distributed between two other skyscrapers in the Bankenviertel, the
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and Neue Mainzer Straße 32–36. This was considered less than optimal, so in the late 1990s the ECB began a process to have a
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The tower was designed by architect Richard Heil and was built between 1971 and 1977. The first main tenant was the
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Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. 677: 8: 1099: 1085: 1077: 684: 670: 31: 876:Institutional seats of the European Union 335:. The building served as the seat of the 1319:Skyscraper office buildings in Frankfurt 692:Tallest skyscrapers in Frankfurt am Main 897: 174:46,630 m (501,900 sq ft) 1314:Government buildings completed in 1977 966: 886:List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt 389:Until 2013, a club/restaurant called 382:. 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Eurotower (Frankfurt)

Modernism
Frankfurt
Hesse
Germany
Coordinates
50°06′34″N 8°40′26″E / 50.1095°N 8.6740°E / 50.1095; 8.6740
Johannes Krahn
Philipp Holzmann
Philipp Holzmann
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Willy-Brandt-Platz

storey
skyscraper
Innenstadt district
Frankfurt
Germany
European Central Bank
a new purpose-built building
ECB Banking Supervision
Willy-Brandt-Platz
central business district
Bankenviertel

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