A massive £850 million project is underway in Frankfurt, and it’s set to drastically increase the city’s skyline with hundreds of luxury flats, offices, and a hotel. 

FOUR Frankfurt is an ongoing mega-development of four towers, set to be finished by the end of the year, with the tallest reaching a whopping 233 meters above street level. 

This is part of a project to connect the city centre (Roßmarkt) with the banking district (Junghofstrasse) – which has been separated for over 70 years. Once it’s complete, a new mixed-use neighbourhood will stand tall.

Acting like a city within a city, FOUR will provide the area with shops and restaurants as well as the luxury accommodation and offices. 

T1, the tallest tower, will comprise 56 floors of office space and a food hall, whereas T2 (173m) and T3 (120m) are both high-rise residential towers. T4 will be the shortest of the four, standing at 100m, and consist of more offices.

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A whopping 66 percent of skyscrapers built in Europe are in just five cities: London, Paris, Istanbul, Moscow, and Frankfurt. 

FOUR is part of a collection of 50 new skyscrapers coming to Frankfurt, but these make the most of a special design trick. They are being built facing away from each other to maximise the views from the inside.

When completed, the new urban quarter will offer workspaces for 3,000 people and accommodation for a further 1,000.

The project also includes passageways in and amongst the buildings, which will be home to shops and restaurants, and provide direct links to the city centre and surrounding neighbourhoods. 

The FOUR Frankfurt website describes it as “uncompromising urbanity that sets new standards throughout Europe” and will “generate a positive vision of the future instead of merely managing the present”.

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It continues: “FOUR breaks with the monostructure. The four towers mix uses such as hotels, serviced apartments, apartments and offices. Together with the public city squares and new connections to the city, urban quality of life is created – not for a few, but for everyone.”

The high-rises are being built on a multi-storey podium that will be at the centre of the new neighbourhood. There will also be city squares created between the buildings and a roof terrace on the podium.

Construction on FOUR began in 2017 with one of the largest construction sites Frankfurt has ever seen, providing jobs for roughly 3,000 people.