Mainhattan

This is the view from Main Tower in Frankfurt over the skyline of the city which is often called MAINhattan.

We went up this tower tonight. Glad I didn't have to walk up the stairs - there was only 20 or so to go up!! It is a 56-storey, 200 m (656 ft) skyscraper in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt and is named after the nearby Main river. The building is 240 m (787 ft) when its antenna spire is included.
The tower has five underground floors and two public viewing platforms. It is the only skyscraper in Frankfurt with a public viewing observatory. It is the 4th tallest building in Frankfurt and the 4th tallest in Germany.

The structure was built between 1996 and 1999, and serves as headquarters for Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba). Other tenants are the German Offices of Merrill Lynch and Standard & Poor's and a television studio of the Hessischer Rundfunk. During weather reports by the television station, the weather reporter stands on the top of the building. They were filming when we were there and then ran down the stairs as if they were on Treasure Hunt with Anneka Rice!

The tower's design features what appears to be two connected towers. The smaller of the two is of a cuboid shape and a design common to 1970s architecture. The second and taller of the two towers is a circular tower with an entire blue glass exterior which features the transmission tower on top. It was worth the visit to get these views.