13. The ECB’s chair
Place: Germany
Complete Expense: ~1.7 Trillion*
2014 is the year that ended.
Though it is located in Frankfurt, Germany, the European Central Bank (ECB) serves the 340 million inhabitants who live in the 19 member states that make up the European Union.
The ECB’s seat is at Cinemaberg/Shutterstock.
Construction took four and a half years, and about six months after it was finished, it was officially opened. The entire area of the ECB seat is over two million square feet, with construction costs of nearly $850 per square foot.
One need that was set down in order for the European Central Bank’s seat to be located in Germany was that the German government fulfill its obligation to the Central Bank to guarantee that no foreign agents or demonstrators would jeopardize the structure.
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