area 126 – hamburg

In Hamburg a red – brick red – thread connects the spectacular and famous Elbphilarmonie building designed by Herzog & de Meuron, still in construction, with the expressive contours of…

Hamburg is said to have more bridges than Amsterdam and Venice combined; there seems to be 2123 of them. Perhaps water is no longer as omnipresent today in Hamburg as…

Caroline Fuchs: Let us try to retrace the process your municipal administration has gone through in order to arrive at the present situation, and in particular the involvement of many architects…

The year of presentation of the IBA, the Internationale Bauaustellung or International Building Exhibition of Hamburg, begins on 23 March 2013. The themes of interest and the more than 60 projects…

For a good 340 years, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (Handelskammer) has been not only the central stock exchange and hub of the city‘s economic life, but also a place…

The project “Steckelhörn 11” is located in the old centre of Hamburg, close to the prominent new HafenCity development. It replaces a ruinous building and fills the gap between two…

The Elbphilharmonie on the archaic Kaispeicher A The Kaispeicher A, designed by Werner Kallmorgen and constructed between 1963 and 1966, was used as a warehouse for cocoa beans until close…

This eleven-storey residential tower is situated on the northern bank of the Kaiserkai in Hamburg‘s HafenCity. This exposed location offers a beautiful view of downtown Hamburg, the Speicherstadt and the…

The apartment building ˝Vanmeer˝ at Kaiserkai 45 is conceived as a landmark on the former harbour quay. It refers to traditional images of freight stacked on the quayside: the main…

The school by the Sandtorpark is the first public building in the newly emerging Hafencity and a part of the urban, dense city quarter. As a result of the scarce…

The new Unilever headquarter building is situated right by the river Elbe, prominently positioned in Hamburg‘s HafenCity. The Unilever building opens up large areas to the public, both outside the…

Directly on the Elbe, commanding a prominent position in the HafenCity, stands the Marco Polo Tower right beside the new Unilever headquarters, also by Behnisch Architekten. The 55 m high…

The mixed-use building (SPV 1-4) designed by Erick van Egeraat is part of the Überseequartier and the larger plan of the HafenCity waterfront redevelopment in Hamburg, Germany. The new building…

The complex, comprising of the Science Center, Aquarium and Science Theatre, is located at the entrance to the Magdeburger harbour and sits at the end point of an urban axis…

Henning Larsen Architects has chosen a two-part composition to create hierarchy and openness on the site and has integrated the complex urban spaces that meet at Ericusspitze in their design. With…

The Empire Riverside Hotel and the ‘Brauhaus‘, an office building with a restaurant on the ground floor, are located in the centre of Hamburg, above St. Pauli‘s gangways on the…

The first phase of the Music school in Hamburg was finished in 2000. When designing this building there was already the intension for a second phase of the building: a…

The architecture of the new Ministry of Urban Development and the Environment helps to define a diverse, multicultural and integrative new district in a formerly neglected area of Hamburg. The…

“Wasserkunst Elbinsel Kaltehofe” is a Hamburg Wasserwerke (Hamburg Waterworks) project initiated by the nature conservation organisation Schutzgemeinschaft Deutscher Wald (SDW) and part of the development and ecological Agenda 21 process….