View of Commerzbank Tower from the top of Main Tower

The Commerzbank Tower at night

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With a height of 259 m (850 ft), 56 stories, it provides 121,000 m² (1.3 million square feet) of office space for the Commerzbank Headquarters, including winter gardens and natural lighting and air circulation. It was designed by Sir Norman Foster & Partners, with Arup and Krebs & Keifer (structural engineering), J. Roger Preston with P&A Petterson Ahrens (mechanical engineering), Schad & Hölzel (electrical engineering). Construction of the building began in 1994 and took 3 years to finish. Commerzbank AG was founded in 1870 by individual and merchant bankers in Hamburg. ... Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters, Ipswich, was one of Fosters earliest commissions after founding Foster Associates. ... Arup is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning and project management services for all aspects of the built environment. ... The structure of a thing is how the parts of it relate to each other, how it is put together. This contrast with process, which is how the thing works; but process requires a viable structure. ... Engineering applies scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ... The word mechanical can mean one of several things: A device or principle described as mechanical relates to a mechanism or machine, or the realm of Newtonian mechanics. ... Engineering applies scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ... The article on electrical energy is located elsewhere. ... Engineering applies scientific and technical knowledge to solve human problems. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

See also

• List of skyscrapers
• List of skyscrapers in Europe
• History of Germany