KÖLN TURM


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KÖLNTURM
148 metres/486 feet
43 stories
Completed: 2001

Some KölnTurm facts & figures:

- the building is situated in the northwest of Cologne, Germany; in the MediaPark area.
It symbolises Cologne’s claim to be the centre of the German media industry.
- it’s the tallest (office) building in the city, though the city has a taller structure in Colonius,
the 243m/798f tall telecommunications tower, which can be found only a few blocks from KölnTurm;
- designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, with Kohl und Kohl Architekten, and Georg Heckmann;
- the building has a double glass façade which is decorated with etchings of clouds and translucent pictures of old buildings of Cologne,
including the Dom, and aeroplanes; A new method was used for this creatively designed façade.
The enamel for the motifs of the silhouettes is branded into the panes and is therefore weather resistant.
400 different screens were used, so that the pictures appear to move when reflected in daylight
- on the KölnTurm the façade is also a medium.
- construction started in June 1999; the building was officially opened in November of 2001;
- with antenna (not included in the official height) on top, the building reaches a height of 165,48m/543f;
- the tower can be divided into three sections, with a 2-story underground car park:
first of all there is a cube shaped area from the ground level area up to floor 8, with the entrance level, a bistro, ticket shop, an ATM, conference rooms, and office floors;
from the 9th to the 30th floor, one can find the Business Floors in the main part of the tower.
The last part is the top of the tower from the 31th to the 43nd floor. The offices here are called the Executive Floors.
- on the 31st floor, at the 108m/354f level, a panorama restaurant can be found, called OSMAN30;
- the 40th floor has an 180 square metres event-floor, which can be booked for special events;
- a total of 250 people work in the tower;
- next to the tower, the 217 room Jolly Hotel MediaPark can be found;
- the tower is part of the MediaPark Köln.
The MediaPark is also home to the already mentioned Jolly Hotel, a large cinema, a Musictower, a Literaturehome, and residential apartments.
In the MediaPark (media city) some 5,000 people work in about 250 different media related companies.
The MediaPark is set in an urban development concept devised by the German-Canadian architect Prof. E. Zeidler, and consists of eight
group of buildings with pioneering architecture.

Some data facts about KölnTurm:
- total surface area: 32,730 square metres;
- total double façade area: 16,500 square metres;
- the tower has 3,050 opening window units;
- the building weighs 52,500 tons, and consists of 3,500 tons of steel,
and 21,000 cubic metres of concrete;



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