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Frankfurter Büro Center
General information
Type	Commercial offices
Architectural style	Modernism
Location	Mainzer Landstraße 40–46 Frankfurt Hesse, Germany
Coordinates	50°06′41″N 8°39′52″E / 50.1114°N 8.66444°E / 50.1114; 8.66444
Completed	1974–1980
Height
Roof	142 m (466 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	40 2 below ground
Floor area	52,000 m (560,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Richard Heil
Engineer	BGS Ingenieursozietät
Main contractor	Philipp Holzmann AG
References

Frankfurter Büro Center (German for Frankfurt Office Centre), also known as FBC, is a 40-storey, 142 m (466 ft) skyscraper in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. It was designed by architect Richard Heil from Frankfurt. The building's anchor tenant is the international law firm Clifford Chance.

Background

Due to the oil crisis the construction of the skyscraper got stuck in 1975. Until 1979 no investor had been found to finish the building because of high construction costs and a lack of prospective tenants for the office space. Later the ECE project development company stepped in and reached an agreement with owners and artisans, and developed a construction program for completion and technical improvement as well as a rental concept. In 1981 the tower was finally finished and comprised approximately 52,000 m (560,000 sq ft) of gross floor area. As of end of April 2007 approximately 17,000 m (180,000 sq ft) of office space on the lower 20 floors were not let. Thus, the occupancy rate was approximately 65 percent.

The building was owned by DEGI, an open property fund of Dresdner Bank from 1985 to 2007 and then sold to the Goldman Sachs Whitehall Fund. In 2016 it was acquired by PBM Germany, a construction company from Berlin.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
• List of tallest buildings in Germany

References

1. "Frankfurter Büro Center". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
2. "Emporis building ID 109675". Emporis. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
3. "Frankfurter Büro Center". SkyscraperPage.
4. Frankfurter Büro Center at Structurae
5. FBC sold to PBM

v t e Skyscrapers in Frankfurt
List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
>300 m	Europaturm (337.5 m)
200-300 m	Commerzbank Tower (258.7 m) Messeturm (256.5 m) Four I (233 m) Westendstrasse 1 (208 m) Main Tower (200 m) Tower 185 (200 m)
150-200 m	One Frankfurt (190.9 m) Omniturm (189 m) Trianon (186 m) Seat of the European Central Bank (185 m) Grand Tower (179.9 m) Four II (178 m) Opernturm (170 m) Taunusturm (170 m) Silberturm (166.3 m) Westend Gate (159.3 m) Deutsche Bank Twin Towers (155 m) Marienturm (155 m) Skyper (153.8 m)
100-150 m	Eurotower (148 m) One Forty West (145 m) Frankfurter Büro Center (142.4 m) City-Haus (142.1 m) Henninger Turm (140 m) Gallileo (136 m) Nextower (136 m) Pollux (130 m) The Spin (128 m) Four III (128 m) Garden Tower (127 m) Messe Torhaus (117 m) Japan Center (115 m) Park Tower (115 m) Westhafen Tower (112.3 m) IBC Tower (112 m) Büro Center Nibelungenplatz (110 m) Eurotheum (110 m) WinX (110 m) Global Tower (108.6 m) Four IV (104 m) Leonardo Royal Hotel Frankfurt (100 m)
<100 m	MainTor Porta (70 m) MainTor Panorama (64 m)
Under construction	Central Business Tower (205 m) Sparda-Bank Tower (124 m)
Proposed	Millennium Tower I (288 m) Kaiserkaree (195 m) Das Präsidium (175 m) Millennium Tower II (157 m) Icoon (140 m) Matthäuskirche Tower (130 m) NION (106 m)
Demolished	AfE-Turm (116 m)
Category

• Germany
• Architecture

• Office buildings completed in 1981
• Skyscraper office buildings in Frankfurt