Voronoi’s Corrals
Voronoi’s Corrals is a project located in an isolated natural setting with an area of 60,000 sqm. The overall design strategy was to segregate the rural areas of the landscape from the wild ones with clearly defined borders that form four distinct corr …
Fattoria Celle: a dialogue with Giuliano Gori
Fattoria di Celle, one of the most interesting centres of contemporary environmental art in the world, opened to the public for the first time on 12 June 1982. The park and the buildings house a large collection of works, 48 of which are installed in t …
area 126 – hamburg
presentazione/introduction Hamburg reflections of water and architecture text by Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial From Hammaburg to HafenCity text by Falk Jaeger letture critiche/critical lectures More city in the …
Hamburg, reflections of water and architecture
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 Fritz Höger’s Chilehaus. But it would be a bad mistake to limit …
From Hammaburg to HafenCity
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 it is in Amsterdam or Venice, but the fact remains that the city owes its foundation, …
More city in the city
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 of international renown in the definition of the urban im …
Building the City Anew
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 of the IBA Hamburg will be presented to the public for …
House within a house
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 of great social importance. Situated close to major city landmarks, the Binnenalste …