Erekton99's video: Maintower Frankfurt Zoo Offenbach: Frankfurter Str - 2011

Maintower is a 200 meter (656 foot) skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is named after the river Main. A 40 metre (131 foot) communications tower is mounted atop the building. It features five underground floors, as well as two public viewing platforms. The tower currently remains the only skyscraper in Frankfurt with a public viewing observatory. It is currently the 4th tallest building in Frankfurt. Maintower was built between 1996 and 1999 and contains the Landesbank of Hesse and Thuringia (Helaba), the German Office of Merrill Lynch and a television studio of the Hessischer Rundfunk, among other enterprises. The first tenants moved in on November 5, 1999, and the official inauguration was January 28, 2000. During weather reports by the television station, the weather reporter stands on the top of the building. The foyer of the building has two art pieces accessible to the public: the video installation by Bill Viola "The World of Appearances" and the wall mosaic by Stephan Huber "Frankfurter Treppe / XX. Jahrhundert" (Translation: "Frankfurt's Steps/20th Century") 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. Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) is a commercial bank with core regions in Hesse and Thuringia, Germany. It is the group bank for savings banks, Landesbank and public sector banks located in the two federal states and their municipalities, as well as a commercial bank with orientation to wholesale customer business. Helaba is an institution incorporated under public law. With approximately 6,000 employees, the Helaba Group is one of the larger German Landesbanks. Its two head offices are in Frankfurt am Main and Erfurt. The bank has branches in Kassel (Landeskreditkasse zu Kassel), New York, London, Paris and Dublin and is also present with representative offices in Madrid, Moscow and Shanghai. Belonging to the Helaba Group are the subsidiaries, Helaba Invest Kapitalanlagegesellschaft, Frankfurter Bankgesellschaft and the OFB Group, which is active in real estate project development. The Frankfurt Zoological Garden is the zoo of Frankfurt, Germany. It features over 5,000 animals of more than 600 species on more than 13 hectares. The zoo was founded in 1858 and is the second oldest Zoo in Germany. It lies in the eastern part of the Innenstadt (inner city). Former director of the zoo was Bernhard Grzimek. Crocodiles, gorillas, lions and rhinos: you don`t have to travel to Africa to see these fascinating animals. A trip to Frankfurt Zoo is just as good. The zoo offers not only a green recreation area on your doorstep. Our animals dowell in surroundings as natural as possible, with many places to hide and live in species-specific social groups just they do in the wild. We are open every day of the year from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm (summer) or to 5.00 pm (winter). Ticket sales cease half an hour prior to closing time. You reach the Frankfurt Zoo by underground line U6/U7, tram line 14 and bus line 31 (station Zoo). Recorded on May 25, 2011. Courtesy of Darko and Mararlene.