POST TOWER


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POST TOWER
162,5 metres/533 feet
42 stories
Completed: 2002

Some Post Tower facts & figures:

- The building can be found in the German city of Bonn and
is sited in a public parkland adjacent to the river Rhine;
- it is the headquarters of the Deutsche Post World Net (the German postal service),
with its subsidiaries Deutsche Post AG, DHL and Postbank;
- approximately 2,000 people work in the Tower;
- the building was designed by architects C.F. Murphy and Helmuth Jahn,
with Heinle, Wischer und Partner as associate architects;
- the building has the shape of two half ellipses merged together,
with a space in between the two halves of 7,4 metres (24 feet);
- in between the floors there are four sky-gardens (every ninth floor),
which connect the two half ellipses with each other;
- the tower is equipped with a cavity glass facade.
The external fully glazed front denotes openness and innovative strength,
and is opened or closed depending upon conditions of temperature and pressure;
- most of the inside of the building (doors, walls, floors) is made out of glass as well,
which gives it a even greater transparent look;
- at night, the façade of the building can have a colour changing sequence
over 55,000 square metres of façade, in which the building is alternating
a lightning sequence scheme in which it's coloured blue,
yellow and red. This colour sequence is being used on special occasions;
- ever since the completion of the building two yellow/black coloured Deutsche Post
marks could be seen on top of the building, one on the northern side,
and one on the southern side of the building.
Early 2007, the northern one was replaced by a DHL mark;
- Post Tower is the tallest building of Bonn and the tallest German building
outside of the city of Frankfurt;
it ranks 7th in the top 10 of tallest buildings of Germany;
- the building was constructed from 2000 - 2002;
- building costs were approximately 80 million euro;
- total gross floor area is approximately 107,000 square metres;
- in May of 2007, a virtual Post Tower was opened in
the 3D onlineworld Second Life, as Post Towers on Post Island.



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