Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
by Michael Lewis · 2 Oct 2011 · 180pp · 61,340 words
I noticed the Commerzbank building on the skyline. There’s a law in Germany prohibiting buildings higher than twenty stories, but Frankfurt allows exceptions. The Commerzbank Tower is fifty-three stories high and unusually shaped: it resembles a giant throne. The top of the building, the arms of the throne, are more
Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
by Brett Scott · 4 Jul 2022 · 308pp · 85,850 words
the lords of finance gather, whether it be Singapore, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo or Frankfurt. One of the most iconic skyscrapers in Frankfurt is the Commerzbank Tower, and I remember snapping a shot of it late one night as a security guard watched me from inside. The immense tower brought to mind
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of impenetrable power. The architecture echoes our relationship with high finance; most people stand beneath these monoliths, on the outside looking up. But, inside, the Commerzbank Tower has a secret: a men’s toilet in which a line of ceramic urinals are positioned to offer a panoramic view over the city, so
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cold towers if they had no friends, family, pets or community to return to each evening. Nobody wants to cuddle up in bed in the Commerzbank Tower, and you cannot smell or hear the distant activities you see from its fiftieth floor. Skyscrapers are not a natural habitat for warm-blooded humans
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AI technologies being built here are now being co-opted into the service of financial institutions. Replacing the urinals The bankers taking advantage of the Commerzbank Tower urinals in Chapter 1 have no way of directly connecting to every single person they see on the street below. Historically, bankers occupying corporate headquarters
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, 82 Coca-Cola, 31, 131 cocaine, 98 code is law, 223, 224 Coinbase, 233 collateralised debt obligations, 26 colonialism, 55, 97, 175–6, 178, 239 Commerzbank Tower, Frankfurt, 18–20, 143, 156 computer boys, 158 conductivity, 179, 249 ConsenSys, 229 conservatism, 7, 131, 155, 184, 192–3, 211 see also right-wing
Germany
by Andrea Schulte-Peevers · 17 Oct 2010
war; beyond it, across the river, is Sachsenhausen. To the north and northeast is the banking district, with its ever-changing vista of towers. The Commerzbank Tower, Europe’s tallest office block at 258m high (298m including the antenna), stands aloof at Kaiserplatz. Off to the west is the 256m-high Messeturm
Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
by Salvatore Basile · 1 Sep 2014 · 335pp · 95,387 words
step in the right direction. In the meantime, the steel-and-glass building proved that it could use its resources more efficiently when Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Tower opened in 1997. This “ecological skyscraper” was a remarkably sensitive one in terms of its energy use. It even had windows that could open. “The
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a major monument built by a major corporation can, that the fledgling movement known as Green Architecture has moved decisively into the mainstream.” Before the Commerzbank Tower had even opened, it was being oneupped in New York by Four Times Square. When it opened in 1999, neither its 48-story height nor
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Clinton, Bill, 238 clothing and fashion, 3, 7, 9, 14–15, 16 Cobb, Irvin S., 201 Colorado Automatic Refrigerating Company, 51 Columbia University, 70, 225 Commerzbank Tower, 245–246 compressors, 2, 23, 24, 35, 138, 144–145, 148, 165, 184–185, 187, 242, 255 computers, 215n, 240 Conn, C. G., 184 Consolidated
City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
by P. D. Smith · 19 Jun 2012
, growing urban populations will need to be accommodated with the minimum impact on the environment and the planet’s scarce resources. Architect Norman Foster, whose Commerzbank Tower (1997) in Frankfurt, Germany, was the first skyscraper designed according to ecological principles, believes that high-density, high-rise living is essential: ‘We need skyscrapers
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
by Edward L. Glaeser · 1 Jan 2011 · 598pp · 140,612 words
.com/en/wm/ci/bu/?id=101028. 205 tallest skyscraper in Western Europe today: The tallest building in Western Europe, at about 849 feet, is Commerzbank Tower, in Frankfurt, Germany. Emporis.com, www.emporis.com/en/bu/sk/st/tp/ct/?id=100001. 205 that tall for another thirty-six years: The