Tower 185, Office skyscraper in Gallus, Frankfurt, Germany
Tower 185 is a 55-storey, 200-metre skyscraper in Frankfurt's Gallus district, designed by Christoph Mäckler. A horseshoe-shaped base building surrounds a round glass central section, from which two tower halves with an aluminium-glass facade rise. The pale stone grid facade has dark recessed windows, and two white bands near the top read "THE NEXT GENERATION OF HIGH RISE" and "TOWER 185".
Construction started in 2008, though initial plans called for 185 meters and 50 floors before the design was revised upward. The building opened in December 2011 with the expanded floor count.
The name Tower 185 comes from an early planning phase when the height was set at 185 metres; the final building reaches 200 metres but kept the name. The anchor tenant is the German headquarters of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which leased 66,000 of roughly 100,000 square metres of office space. Law firm Mayer Brown and the consultancy Strategy& also occupy floors.
The tower stands at Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35–37 in the Gallus district, next to the Europaviertel and close to the Frankfurt Trade Fair. Its horseshoe-shaped base opens toward the surrounding streets, and the windows can be opened a narrow gap for fresh air. The building is an office tower, so interior access is limited to tenants and their visitors.
The name Tower 185 comes from an early planning phase when the height was set at 185 metres. The final design by Christoph Mäckler raised the tower to 200 metres, but the name was kept. In 2023 the building was one of three sites, alongside the Messeturm, proposed as a possible seat of the EU's Anti-Money Laundering Authority.
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