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Westend Gate
Former names	Plaza Büro Center PBC Hochhaus Senckenberganlage
General information
Type	Commercial offices Hotel
Architectural style	Modernism
Location	Hamburger Allee 2 Frankfurt Hesse, Germany
Coordinates	50°06′51″N 8°39′01″E / 50.1142°N 8.6503°E / 50.1142; 8.6503
Completed	1972–1976
Cost	US$500 million
Height
Roof	159 m (522 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	47 3 below ground
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Siegfried Hoyer
Engineer	BGS Ingenieursozietät Philipp Holzmann Wayss & Freytag
Other information
Number of rooms	588
Parking	679
Public transit access	Festhalle/Messe 16 17 Festhalle/Messe
References

Westend Gate, formerly known as Plaza Büro Center, is a 47-storey, 159 m (522 ft) skyscraper in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. It was the tallest building in Germany from 1976 until 1978 when it was surpassed by the Silberturm, which is also located in Frankfurt.

The Westend Gate is located just across the street from the Frankfurt Trade Fair grounds and near the Naturmuseum Senckenberg and the Bockenheim Campus of the Goethe University Frankfurt.

The structure consists of 2 slabs plus a narrow wing attached to the east side. It was renamed Westend Gate in 2011, when it was completely renovated as a green building.

The lower half of the tower contains offices, while floors 26–44 are a hotel, originally the CP Frankfurt Plaza Hotel, known since 1989 as the Frankfurt Marriott.

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See also

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

References

1. "Westend Gate". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
2. "Emporis building ID 109784". Emporis. Archived from the original on July 12, 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
3. "Westend Gate". SkyscraperPage.
4. Westend Gate at Structurae
5. "Green Building Certificate for the Westend Gate in Frankfurt am Main". Lindner Group. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 17 June 2012.

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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)
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• Germany
• Architecture

• Office buildings completed in 1976
• Skyscraper office buildings in Frankfurt
• 1976 establishments in West Germany
• Skyscraper hotels in Germany