Westfalentower, Office tower in Dortmund, Germany
The Westfalentower is a high-rise office building in Dortmund, standing 86 meters tall across 22 floors, making it one of the tallest office towers in the city. It is made up of three connected sections called Tower, Atrium, and Forum, together offering a large amount of office space and an underground parking facility.
The tower was completed in early 2010, shortly after a topping-out ceremony in November 2009. It was built during a period when Dortmund was shifting away from heavy industry toward a service-based economy.
The building houses a regional television studio that produces broadcasts for North Rhine-Westphalia, so the area around the entrance occasionally sees production vans and crew activity. This media presence gives the tower a function beyond ordinary office work.
As this is a private office complex, most of the interior is not open to the general public without a prior arrangement. The tower is easy to spot from the surrounding streets and sits within walking distance of Dortmund city center.
Shortly after opening, the building sat at about 90 percent vacancy in 2012, which put its future as an office address in serious doubt. The situation changed when Commerzbank AG took on nearly half of the rentable space in 2014, turning it into a busy workplace almost overnight.
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