engineering

One Forty West

One Forty West is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand One Forty West rather than just read about it. In short: One Forty West is a mixed-use high-rise building in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. Built between 2017 and 2020, the tower stands at 145 m (476 ft) tall and is the current 22nd tallest building in Frankfurt.

Key takeaways

One Forty West belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect One Forty West to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of One Forty West from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

One Forty West is a mixed-use high-rise building in the Westend-Süd district of Frankfurt, Germany. Built between 2017 and 2020, the tower stands at 145 m (476 ft) tall and is the current 22nd tallest building in Frankfurt. It is also part of the Kulturcampus Complex alongside the Senckenberg Turm.

History

Planning The 145-meter-high tower houses a total of 187 rental and condominium apartments from the 24th floor onwards, as well as a hotel below in the immediate vicinity of the Frankfurt Trade Fair. The 4-star hotel with 430 rooms located within the tower opened in June 2021. The high-rise project is described as a hybrid tower, combining two distinctive functions of housing apartments in addition to a hotel. Because of the expected high rental prices, critics considered it to be another "luxury residential island". Between 1970 until its demolition on February 2, 2014, the 116-meter-high AfE-Turm owned by the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University was located on the property. This was part of the Bockenheim campus of the Goethe University and housed the offices and seminar rooms of the departments of social sciences, educational sciences and psychology until March 2013. On August 23, 2011, the state of Hesse sold the Bockenheim campus to the city-owned ABG Frankfurt Holding, as the Goethe University had decided to close the Bockenheim site and relocate the departments to the Westend campus and the Riedberg campus.

Architecture According to the high-rise framework plan, the construction of two high-rises, originally 140 and 100 metres high, is permitted on the site of the former AfE tower. In September 2015, Commerz Real acquired part of the site for what would later become One Forty West in a joint venture with the project developer Groß & Partner. Commerz Real was involved in this for its open real estate fund hausInvest. DJH Architekten initially prepared urban planning studies and later planned the high-rise. Groß & Partner took over the planning and management of further development. After completion, the project developer sold its shares in the One Forty West project company. A long-term 25-year lease was signed for the first 16 floors with Meliá Hotels International, which has since opened a four-star hotel here. An architectural competition was held in January 2016, but there was no clear winner, as only three equal second prizes were awarded. The three architectural firms were then commissioned to revise their designs. In March 2016, the revised design by Cyrus Moser Architects was chosen as the winner. Construction of the hotel and residential high-rise began at the end of 2016. On the upper floors (24th to 40th) of the hybrid high-rise, 94 condominiums and 93 rental apartments will be built. The condominiums - for which the upper floors from the 32nd to the 40th floor are reserved - are offered in three apartment types and various sizes from 50 to 137 square meters at prices starting at 735,000 euros. The square meter prices start (as of spring 2020) at 13,000 euros, while the rental apartments are priced at 35 euros per square meter. All apartments have balconies, each with a view of the Frankfurt skyline or the Taunus. There will be a 24-hour concierge service in the lobby - and a refrigerated wine cellar will be installed in the basement. The site for the neighboring second high-rise building (initially called the North Office Building) was still owned by ABG Frankfurt Holding in 2016. The Senckenberg Tower was built there and was completed in early 2022 after two and a half years of construction. It reaches a height of 106 meters.

See also List of tallest buildings in Frankfurt List of tallest buildings in Germany List of tallest buildings in Europe

References

External links

Official website One Forty West at CTBUH One Forty West at SkyscraperPage One Forty West at Structurae One Forty West at SKYDB

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with One Forty West

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what One Forty West claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to One Forty West before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about One Forty West ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of One Forty West

In research: One Forty West appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses One Forty West in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: One Forty West is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2020 establishments in Germany, 21st-century architecture in Germany, Buildings and structures completed in 2020, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for One Forty West outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study One Forty West in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what One Forty West means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
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Frequently asked questions

What is One Forty West in simple terms?

Why does One Forty West matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study One Forty West?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on One Forty West.