CVU Gold Member

Drees & Sommer

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About

Member Offices: Stuttgart

Drees & Sommer is our innovative partner for consulting, planning, construction and operation.

The leading European consulting, planning and project management enterprise, Drees & Sommer has supported private and public clients and investors for over 50 years in all aspects of real estate and infrastructure – both analog and digital. Through future-oriented consulting, the enterprise can offer solutions for successful buildings, profitable real estate portfolios, people-oriented working environments, and visionary mobility concepts. The company’s approx. 4,000 employees in 46 locations around the world work in interdisciplinary teams to provide support for clients from a wide variety of sectors. All the services provided by the partner-run company take into consideration both economic and ecological concerns.

That is what we aspire to. And that's what customers can expect from us. Together we develop future-proof solutions that are sustainable, digital, economical and innovative.

Fields of Expertise

Architecture; Civil Engineering; Structural Engineering

Buildings

RANK	Name	City	Completion	Height	Floors	Function
1	Fernsehturm	Stuttgart	1956	217 m / 712 ft	N/A	Telecommunications
2	Roche Turm Bau 2	Basel	2022	205 m / 673 ft	50	Office
3	Tower 185	Frankfurt am Main	2011	200 m / 656 ft	50	Office
4	Trianon	Frankfurt am Main	1993	186 m / 610 ft	45	Office
5	ECB - European Central Bank	Frankfurt am Main	2014	184 m / 603 ft	43	Office
6	Roche Turm Bau 1	Basel	2015	178 m / 584 ft	41	Office
7	Silver Tower	Frankfurt am Main	1978	166 m / 546 ft	32	Office
8	Post Turm	Bonn	2002	162 m / 533 ft	42	Office
9	Postkantoor	Rotterdam	2025	155 m / 509 ft	43	Residential / Hotel
10	Deutsche Bank Tower I	Frankfurt am Main	1984	155 m / 509 ft	40	Office

Building Completions Timeline

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RANK	Name	City	Completion	Height	Floors	Function
1	Fernsehturm	Stuttgart	1956	217 m / 712 ft	N/A	Telecommunications
2	Roche Turm Bau 2	Basel	2022	205 m / 673 ft	50	Office
3	Tower 185	Frankfurt am Main	2011	200 m / 656 ft	50	Office
4	Trianon	Frankfurt am Main	1993	186 m / 610 ft	45	Office
5	ECB - European Central Bank	Frankfurt am Main	2014	184 m / 603 ft	43	Office
6	Roche Turm Bau 1	Basel	2015	178 m / 584 ft	41	Office
7	Silver Tower	Frankfurt am Main	1978	166 m / 546 ft	32	Office
8	Post Turm	Bonn	2002	162 m / 533 ft	42	Office
9	Postkantoor	Rotterdam	2025	155 m / 509 ft	43	Residential / Hotel
10	Deutsche Bank Tower I	Frankfurt am Main	1984	155 m / 509 ft	40	Office
11	Deutsche Bank Tower II	Frankfurt am Main	1984	155 m / 509 ft	38	Office
12	Uptown Munchen	Munich	2004	146 m / 479 ft	38	Office
13	One Forty West	Frankfurt am Main	2020	145 m / 476 ft	40	Residential / Hotel
14	Business Tower	Nuremberg	2000	135 m / 443 ft	35	Office
15	1 Bligh Street	Sydney	2011	133 m / 436 ft	30	Office
16	Covivo Turm	Berlin	2025	130 m / 427 ft	32	Office / Residential
17	Hochhaus Treptower	Berlin	1998	125 m / 410 ft	32	Office
18	CETC IT Building Shanghai	Shanghai	2020	120 m / 394 ft	27	Office
19	Upper West	Berlin	2017	119 m / 390 ft	35	Office / Hotel / Retail
20	HVB Tower	Munich	1981	114 m / 373 ft	27	Office
21	Global Tower	Frankfurt am Main	1973	109 m / 356 ft	28	Office
22	Deutsches Haus	Ho Chi Minh City	2017	107 m / 351 ft	26	Office
23	T-Rex Hybrid High-rise	Frankfurt am Main	2022	106 m / 348 ft	26	Office
24	Debis Tower	Berlin	1997	106 m / 348 ft	22	Office
25	Mundsburg Turm I	Hamburg	1973	101 m / 333 ft	29	Residential
26	Kollhoff Tower	Berlin	1999	101 m / 331 ft	23	Office
27	Valley 1	Amsterdam	2021	101 m / 330 ft	26	Residential / Office
28	Mundsburg Turm III	Hamburg	1973	97 m / 319 ft	22	Office
29	Porsche Design Tower	Stuttgart	2022	90 m / 295 ft	25	Hotel / Office
30	Sky Office Duesseldorf	Düsseldorf	2009	89 m / 292 ft	23	Office
31	Exzenterhaus Bochum	Bochum	2013	89 m / 291 ft	25	Office
32	Blue Tower	Brussels	1976	88 m / 289 ft	25	Office
33	Horizon Tower	Eschborn	2003	88 m / 289 ft	23	Office
34	Meret Oppenheim Hochhaus	Basel	2019	85 m / 279 ft	25	Residential / Office
35	Tango Towers	Hamburg	2013	85 m / 279 ft	24	Office
36	Asia Financial Center & AIIB Headquarters	Beijing	2019	82 m / 269 ft	16	Office
37	Valley 2	Amsterdam	2021	81 m / 264 ft	20	Residential / Office
38	Potsdamer Platz 11	Berlin	1999	79 m / 259 ft	19	Office
39	Turm Center	Frankfurt am Main	1970	74 m / 243 ft	22	Office / Retail
40	Rathaus Ludwigshafen	Ludwigshafen	1979	72 m / 236 ft	16	Office / Retail
41	MainTor Porta	Frankfurt am Main	2014	70 m / 230 ft	18	Office
42	Access Tower	Frankfurt am Main	1970	69 m / 226 ft	21	Office
43	Valley 3	Amsterdam	2021	67 m / 220 ft	18	Residential / Office
44	Westfield Hamburg Überseequartier D1	Hamburg	2022	66 m / 215 ft	N/A	Office
44	Westfield Hamburg Überseequartier D2	Hamburg	2022	66 m / 215 ft	N/A	Office
46	International Coffee Plaza	Hamburg	2010	65 m / 213 ft	13	Office
47	Volkswohl Bund High-rise	Dortmund	2011	62 m / 203 ft	16	Office
48	KöTower	Düsseldorf	2025	60 m / 197 ft	17	Office
49	Continentale Headquarters	Dortmund	-	60 m / 197 ft	16	Office
50	Abro	Risch-Rotkreuz	2019	60 m / 197 ft	15	Office / Education
51	The Seven	Munich	2013	56 m / 184 ft	16	Residential
52	Haus C	Risch-Rotkreuz	2020	30 m / 98 ft	7	Office
53	Bâtiment Jean Monnet 2	Luxembourg	2024	-	23	Office / Government

Statistics

Average Building Age*

30 Years

Most Common Function*

Office (100%)

Most Common Material*

Concrete (78%)

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database

Function
Material

Based on 9 buildings over 150 m height with a function

Based on 9 buildings over 150 m height with a material

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

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CVU Gold Member

Drees & Sommer

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Fields of Expertise

Buildings

Building Completions Timeline

Statistics

Building Completions Timeline

Building Map

Construction Time Chart

Designated Experts

Matthias Lassen

Ramona Schmid

Tobias Berger

Stefanie Lütteke

Niklas Veelken

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