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14-428: The Opernturm consists of a 42-storey, 170 m (560 ft) tower, a 7-storey, 26 m (85 ft) podium building facing towards Alte Oper . Access is through an 18 m (59 ft) high lobby. The yellow-beige stone cladding of the facades was designed to fit in with the existing buildings surrounding Opernplatz. Designed to consume 23 percent less energy than stipulated by Germany's 2007 EnEV Energy Regulation,

28-556: Is the European headquarters offices of the UBS Group AG . Leading multinational legal services Allen & Overy , Ashurst , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Reed Smith LLP and the world's largest asset manager BlackRock are occupying several floors of the tower. Alte Oper Alte Oper (Old Opera) is a concert hall in Frankfurt am Main , Hesse, Germany. It is located in

42-506: The Parthenon Frieze being the most famous, and perhaps the most elaborate. In interiors, the frieze of a room is the section of wall above the picture rail and under the crown moldings or cornice. By extension, a frieze is a long stretch of painted , sculpted or even calligraphic decoration in such a position, normally above eye-level. Frieze decorations may depict scenes in a sequence of discrete panels. The material of which

56-496: The frieze / f r iː z / is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order , or decorated with bas-reliefs . Paterae are also usually used to decorate friezes. Even when neither columns nor pilasters are expressed, on an astylar wall it lies upon the architrave ("main beam") and is capped by the moldings of the cornice . A frieze can be found on many Greek and Roman buildings,

70-539: The Alte Oper. A citizen's initiative campaigned for reconstruction funds after 1953 and collected 15 million DM . It ended costing c. 160 million DM, and the building was reopened on 28 August 1981 to the sounds of Gustav Mahler 's Symphony No. 8 , the "Symphony of a Thousand". A live recording of that concert conducted by Michael Gielen is available on CD. Alte Oper has venues of different size: Notes Sources Frieze In classical architecture ,

84-687: The Opernturm was one of the first office buildings in Europe to be certified to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold standard. The site was occupied by one of Frankfurt's first high-rise buildings, the 68 m (223 ft) Zürich-Haus built in 1962. In 1998 the owner of the building, Zürich Versicherung , commissioned Christoph Mäckler's firm to design a new building that would be 22 m (72 ft) taller in order to maximize land use. When

98-512: The development and sold the empty site - the old tower was demolished in 2002 - to project developer Tishman Speyer in July 2004. Civil engineering works started in late 2006 with the removal of the former underground garage of Zürich-Haus. The groundbreaking for the development of OpernTurm took place on 22 January 2007. The completion of Opernturm in late 2009 added another landmark to the city's much photographed skyline, with its elegant silhouette and

112-534: The first time when it was Frankfurt's opera house, including Schreker's Der ferne Klang and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana in 1937. The Oper Frankfurt now plays in the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, completed in 1951. The building was designed by the Berlin architect Richard Lucae , financed by the citizens of Frankfurt and built by Philipp Holzmann . Construction began in 1873. It opened on 20 October 1880. Among

126-563: The frieze is made of may be plasterwork , carved wood or other decorative medium. More loosely, "frieze" is sometimes used for any continuous horizontal strip of decoration on a wall, containing figurative or ornamental motifs. In an example of an architectural frieze on the façade of a building, the octagonal Tower of the Winds in the Roman agora at Athens bears relief sculptures of the eight winds on its frieze. A pulvinated frieze (or pulvino )

140-497: The guests was Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany , who was impressed and said: Das könnte ich mir in Berlin nicht erlauben. ( I couldn't permit myself this sort of thing in Berlin. ) The opening was also celebrated by Mozart's Don Giovanni. The costs increased from the originally planned 2 million marks to a multiple. Alluding to the inscription on the frieze the folkloristic Frankfurt poet Adolf Stoltze  [ de ] wrote, in his best Hessian dialect : The opera house

154-415: The initially proposed building was felt to be rather bulky, Zürich Versicherung suggested to the local government to build the new tower up to a height of 160 m (520 ft) and to compensate for the added height by making available company-owned land to extend the adjacent Rothschildpark down to Bockenheimer Landstrasse. The local government eventually agreed but Zürich Versicherung did not go ahead with

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168-404: The inner city, Innenstadt , within the banking district Bankenviertel . Today's Alte Oper was built in 1880 as the city's opera house , which was destroyed by bombs in 1944. It was rebuilt in the 1970s as a concert hall with a large hall and smaller venues, opened in 1981. The square in front of the building is still known as Opernplatz (Opera Square). Many important works were performed for

182-409: The natural stone façade setting it apart from the glass towers dominating the cityscape. The adjoining Rothschildpark has been extended by 5,500 m (59,000 sq ft) and redesigned in the style of an English garden. In November 2009, the retailer Manufactum was the first tenant to move into the podium building. The building's anchor tenant, occupying 31,000 m (330,000 sq ft),

196-489: Was extensively damaged by bombing raids during World War II in 1944, though many of the outside walls and façades survived. In the 1960s the city magistrate planned to build a modern office building on the site. The then Minister of Economy in Hessen Rudi Arndt , earned the nickname "Dynamit-Rudi" (Dynamite Rudi) when he proposed to blow up "Germany's most beautiful ruin" with "a little dynamite ". Arndt later saved

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