Weser Tower

Weser Tower Skyscraper

The Weser Tower is a multistorey building in Bremen, designed by the American architect of German origin Helmut Jahn.^[1] The laying of the foundation was on 23 October 2007. The Tower of 82 metres height is the tallest office building of Bremen and was completed in 2010.

The 22 floors of the building have a surface of 18,000 square metres and thus place for 800 jobs. Among this large-scale project rank also a new hotel, a Varieté theatre, restaurants and further office buildings. Principal tenant are subsidiary companies of the power supplier EWE AG, which takes over altogether 13 floors of the building.

References

↑ Weser Tower, Bremen Tourism, retrieved 16 January 2014

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Bremen

Buildings and structures	Aalto-Hochhaus Atlantis House Bremen Parliament Cotton Exchange Courthouse Ehemaliges Hauptpostamt (old post office) Deutsche Bank Essighaus Forum Domshof Glockenspiel House Heineken House Hotel zur Post House of the Seven Lazy Brothers Karstadt building Kontorhaus am Markt Landherrnamt New Town Hall Post Office Radisson Blu Hotel Raths-Apotheke Rathscafé Robinson Crusoe House Schlachte Great Crane Schütting (Chamber of Commerce) Shipper's House Spitzen Gebel Stadtsparkasse Building Suding & Soeken Kaufmannshaus Stadtwaage (Weigh house) Stock exchange City Hall Weser Tower

Precincts	Böttcherstraße Bremer Marktplatz Domsheide (square) Domshof (Cathedral Court) Langenstraße Schlachte Embankment Schnoor (district) Teerhof Das Viertel Waterfront Bremen

History	List of mayors Timeline

Churches etc	Birgittenkloster (convent) Bremen Cathedral Church of Our Lady St. John's Church St. Martin's Church St Catherine's Monastery

Cultural institutions	Am Wall Windmill Altes Pumpwerk (Water treatment museum) Die Glocke (concert hall) Forum am Wall (library) Gerhard Marcks Museum (sculpture) Kunsthalle Bremen (art gallery) Ludwig Roselius Museum Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum (paintings) Rundfunkmuseum (Radios) Staatsarchiv Bremen Theater Bremen Theater am Goetheplatz Übersee-Museum (Natural History) Universum Science Center Weserburg (modern art) Wilhelm Wagenfeld House (design exhibitions)

Science and education	University of Bremen

Transportation	Domsheide (trams & buses) Bremen Airport Bremen Hauptbahnhof

Coordinates: 53°05′00″N 08°47′13″E / 53.08333°N 8.78694°E / 53.08333; 8.78694

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