IWO-Hochhaus, Office building in Dortmund, Germany
The IWO-Hochhaus is a 19-story office building that rises 66 meters and features a modern glass facade in downtown Dortmund. Its structure provides multiple office spaces and work areas throughout the floors.
The IWO-Hochhaus opened in 1966 as a 66-metre office tower with 19 floors and around 14,000 square metres of office space; its main tenant at completion was Signal-Versicherung. The developer, IWO-Immobilien, went bankrupt shortly before the building was finished. In the mid-1990s the tower was comprehensively modernised and given a completely new mirrored facade.
The name IWO comes from the developer IWO-Immobilien, which went bankrupt shortly before the tower opened in 1966; the first main tenant was the Signal-Versicherung insurance company. Since then the whole building has been used by the city of Dortmund, and its owner is the Dortmund real-estate firm Dreier. From the station platforms the tower is visible together with the RWE Tower and the Sparkassen-Hochhaus, forming part of the Dortmund skyline.
The building sits near the main train station and is easily reached by public transport. On foot, you will find parking options and additional transportation connections in the immediate area.
The building is named after its original developer IWO-Immobilien, whose company went bankrupt just before the project was completed. Despite this difficult start, it became a recognizable landmark in modern downtown Dortmund.
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