The Spin (Frankfurt)
skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Spin (formerly known as Tower 120) is a mixed-use high-rise building in the Gallus district of Frankfurt, Germany. Built between 2018 and 2023, the tower stands at 128 m (420 ft) tall with 31 floors and is the current 29th tallest building in Frankfurt.
History
A 160-meter-high office tower was to be built on the former Telenorma company site between the Mainzer Landstraße, Güterplatz and Europa-Allee, which had been lying fallow for 20 years, but the property owner Robert Bosch GmbH was unable to find an investor. In 2013, the owner announced that the high-rise would no longer be built and that a new development with apartments was planned instead.
In 2015, Robert Bosch GmbH sold the property to ABG Frankfurt Holding, which presented plans for the construction of a hotel tower up to 90 meters high and a residential tower about 60 meters high. Also in 2015, ABG sold the part of the later The Spin to the Frankfurt project developer Groß & Partner, who subsequently acted as the building owner. At the beginning of 2016, a realization and ideas competition was announced, which was won in March 2016 by the architectural firms Jahn and Magnus Kaminiarz & Cie. The design envisaged a 90-meter-high residential tower ("Eden") with around 130 condominiums and a block-edge development on Europa-Allee, as well as a 120-meter-high hotel high-rise ("Tower 120") on Güterplatz. In 2017, the name of "Spin Tower" was publicly presented, by which the building is still recognized as of today.
Architecture
The tower was built according to the plans created by Hamburg-based architect Hadi Teherani.
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