Innovative Tower Block Facades: Swiss Re London Headquaters and Westhafen Tower, Frankfurt

In London and Frankfurt am Main, two tower blocks are nearing completion, the facades of which would seem, at first sight, to be very similar. What the Swiss Re company’s headquarters by Foster and Partners in London and the Westhafen Tower by Schneider + Schumacher in Frankfurt have in common is a circular layout, multi-storey “conservatories” for natural ventilation, and...