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Tower 185
General information
Type	Commercial offices
Location	Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35-37 Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Coordinates	50°06′38″N 8°39′23″E / 50.1106°N 8.65629°E / 50.1106; 8.65629
Construction started	August 2008
Opening	December 2011
Height
Roof	200 m (656 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	55 2 below ground
Floor area	100,500 m (1,081,800 sq ft)
Lifts/elevators	10
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Christoph Mäckler
References

Tower 185 is a 55-storey, 200 m (660 ft) skyscraper in the Gallus district of Frankfurt, Germany. As of 2023, it is the fourth-tallest building in Frankfurt and the fourth-tallest in Germany, tied with Main Tower. The anchor tenant of the tower is the German branch office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has leased 60,000 m (650,000 sq ft).

The tower was initially planned to be 185 m (607 ft) with 50 storeys; however, when plans changed to increase the height by an additional five floors, its name was not changed.

When Germany submitted its application to have Frankfurt selected as the seat of the European Union's Anti-money-laundering authority (AMLA) in 2023, Tower 185 was one of three options – alongside Messeturm – presented as potential location for the new agency.

Skyscrapers in Frankfurt

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See also

• List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
• List of tallest buildings in Germany
• List of tallest buildings in Europe

References

1. "Tower 185". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
2. "Emporis building ID 101948". Emporis. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016.
3. "Tower 185". SkyscraperPage.
4. Tower 185 at Structurae
5. Carsten Volkery (9 November 2023), Wie Deutschland die Anti-Geldwäsche-Behörde nach Frankfurt holen will Handelsblatt

External links

• Official website

v t e Skyscrapers in Frankfurt
List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt
>300 m	Europaturm (337.5 m)
200-300 m	Commerzbank Tower (258.7 m) Messeturm (256.5 m) Four I (233 m) Westendstrasse 1 (208 m) Main Tower (200 m) Tower 185 (200 m)
150-200 m	One Frankfurt (190.9 m) Omniturm (189 m) Trianon (186 m) Seat of the European Central Bank (185 m) Grand Tower (179.9 m) Four II (178 m) Opernturm (170 m) Taunusturm (170 m) Silberturm (166.3 m) Westend Gate (159.3 m) Deutsche Bank Twin Towers (155 m) Marienturm (155 m) Skyper (153.8 m)
100-150 m	Eurotower (148 m) One Forty West (145 m) Frankfurter Büro Center (142.4 m) City-Haus (142.1 m) Henninger Turm (140 m) Gallileo (136 m) Nextower (136 m) Pollux (130 m) The Spin (128 m) Four III (128 m) Garden Tower (127 m) Messe Torhaus (117 m) Japan Center (115 m) Park Tower (115 m) Westhafen Tower (112.3 m) IBC Tower (112 m) Büro Center Nibelungenplatz (110 m) Eurotheum (110 m) WinX (110 m) Global Tower (108.6 m) Four IV (104 m) Leonardo Royal Hotel Frankfurt (100 m)
<100 m	Eden Frankfurt (96.5 m) MainTor Porta (70 m) MainTor Panorama (64 m)
Under construction	Central Business Tower (205 m) Sparda-Bank Tower (124 m)
Proposed	Millennium Tower I (288 m) Kaiserkaree (195 m) Das Präsidium (175 m) Millennium Tower II (157 m) Icoon (140 m) Matthäuskirche Tower (130 m) NION (106 m)
Demolished	AfE-Turm (116 m)
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• Germany
• Architecture

• Office buildings completed in 2011
• Buildings and structures completed in 2011
• Skyscraper office buildings in Frankfurt
• 2011 establishments in Germany
• 21st-century architecture in Germany
• Modernist architecture in Germany