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The Spin (Frankfurt)

The Spin (Frankfurt) 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 The Spin (Frankfurt) rather than just read about it. In short: The Spin (formerly known as Tower 120) is a mixed-use high-rise building in the Gallus district of Frankfurt, Germany. Built between 2018 and 2023, the tower stands at 128 m (420 ft) tall with 31 floors and is the current 29th tallest building in Frankfurt.

Key takeaways

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

Reference excerpt

The Spin (formerly known as Tower 120) is a mixed-use high-rise building in the Gallus district of Frankfurt, Germany. Built between 2018 and 2023, the tower stands at 128 m (420 ft) tall with 31 floors and is the current 29th tallest building in Frankfurt.

History A 160-meter-high office tower was to be built on the former Telenorma company site between the Mainzer Landstraße, Güterplatz and Europa-Allee, which had been lying fallow for 20 years, but the property owner Robert Bosch GmbH was unable to find an investor. In 2013, the owner announced that the high-rise would no longer be built and that a new development with apartments was planned instead. In 2015, Robert Bosch GmbH sold the property to ABG Frankfurt Holding, which presented plans for the construction of a hotel tower up to 90 meters high and a residential tower about 60 meters high. Also in 2015, ABG sold the part of the later The Spin to the Frankfurt project developer Groß & Partner, who subsequently acted as the building owner. At the beginning of 2016, a realization and ideas competition was announced, which was won in March 2016 by the architectural firms Jahn and Magnus Kaminiarz & Cie. The design envisaged a 90-meter-high residential tower ("Eden") with around 130 condominiums and a block-edge development on Europa-Allee, as well as a 120-meter-high hotel high-rise ("Tower 120") on Güterplatz. In 2017, the name of "Spin Tower" was publicly presented, by which the building is still recognized as of today.

Architecture The tower was built according to the plans created by Hamburg-based architect Hadi Teherani. While the lower 20 floors of the tower are rented by the NH Hotel Group, there are around 10,000 square meters of office space on floors 22 to 31 as well as a roof terrace on the 32nd floor for office employees. The groundbreaking ceremony for the three buildings on the site took place on May 29, 2018. Construction should be completed in 2020. Later, the developer Groß & Partner announced 2022 as the target completion date and estimated the total investment at around 200 million euros. Next to the building there should be a stop on the U5 subway line from 2022, it is now expected that the subway line to the Europaviertel will be completed in the course of 2027 (as of April 2024). In November 2019, it was announced that Groß & Partner had sold the property to the following institutional investors: Medical Care Lower Saxony, Medical Care Saxony-Anhalt, Medical Care Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Veterinary Care, Lower Saxony, Tax Advisors' Pension Fund Lower Saxony. The skyscraper was completed in April 2023, and on May 1, 2023, the NH Collection Frankfurt Spin Tower hotel opened on the lower 20 floors of the property.

Cricitism Former head of the urban planning and architecture department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung publishing Matthias Alexander described the design as "unsuccessful". He also criticizes the composition of the jury that selected the design: a few independent architects could not have rebelled against the personal preferences of the project developer Jürgen Groß and the representatives of the city and the building owner.

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

References

External links

the-spin.de The Spin Frankfurt am Main at CTBUH The Spin Frankfurt am Main at SkyscraperPage The Spin Frankfurt am Main at SKYDB The Spin Frankfurt am Main at Skyline Atlas

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Spin (Frankfurt)

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Spin (Frankfurt) 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 The Spin (Frankfurt) 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 The Spin (Frankfurt) 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 The Spin (Frankfurt)

In research: The Spin (Frankfurt) 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 The Spin (Frankfurt) 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: The Spin (Frankfurt) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2023 establishments in Germany, 21st-century architecture in Germany, Buildings and structures completed in 2023, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Spin (Frankfurt) 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 The Spin (Frankfurt) in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Spin (Frankfurt) 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 The Spin (Frankfurt) in simple terms?

Why does The Spin (Frankfurt) 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 The Spin (Frankfurt)?

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.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The Spin (Frankfurt).