The European Central Bank Headquarters is a building complex under construction in the Ostend district of Frankfurt, Germany. It includes the existing Großmarkthalle, a new 185/165-metre-twin-skyscraper and a new low-rise building to connect the two. Located east of the city centre it will house the new headquarters for the European Central Bank (ECB). It is expected to be completed in 2014.
The ECB's headquarters is legally required by the Treaties of the European Union to lie within the city limits of Frankfurt, the largest financial centre in the Eurozone. The ECB currently resides in the Eurotower and, due to lack of office space there, in two other high-rise buildings (Eurotheum and Neue Mainzer Straße 32-36) in the city centre of Frankfurt.
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