Behind the large archway of access, visible from the city center, a landscaped courtyard welcomes staff and distributes the spaces in the building. The two first levels contain semi-public spaces, while the floor above is occupied by highly flexible
At ground level, the building follows the line of the street and is set back to relate to the lower scale of the building to the east. The roofline corners are chamfered to visually extend the public space around Hopfenmarkt...
The museum is located in the space once occupied by the old train station of Hannover. Its printed concrete facade creates a parallelism by the Lohsepark residential block, located right in front, which spatially recovers the train tracks...
A cylindrical pavilion clad in folded aluminum sheets gives ancillary service to the world’s only theater found on the premises of a fully operating daily market of fresh food produce. Facing the brutalist hangar designed by Hermkes that now includes
Semi-circular piers of red brick rhythmically order the facade in bays of various width that function as mediating elements between two urban realities: the traditional row of buildings and the modern, large-scale developments...
Located on Germany’s largest river island, between arms of the Elbe River, is the Wilhelmburg quarter of Hamburg. This neighborhood is the scene of an initiative to carry out more affordable quality construction. In pursuance of principles of the kin
On the outskirts of Hamburg, in the Altona borough, this exhibition building dedicated to the art of writing offers a voyage through the history of pens manufatured by the firm Montblanc, founded in 1906. The outcome of a competition held in 2016, th
The new guest house integrates architectural topics of the vicinity – solitary positioning, staggering or repetition – to generate a volume of flowing contours and sculptural quality. Loggias and terraces permit a direct relation to the exterior...
Situated on an exposed riverside site, the new mixed-use highrise acts as an entrance marker on the eastern edge of the Hafencity quarter. With a height of 245 meters, the tower is set to become the tallest building in Hamburg...
The Basel firm Herzog & de Meuron, in collaboration with Zurich-based Vogt Landscape Architects, has won the competition for the urban development – including apartments, workplaces, and recreational areas – of Hamburg's Grasbrook district. The proje
Located between two branches of the River Elbe as it flows through Hamburg, the Wilhemsburg quarter was built on the principles set forth by the 2013 International Building Exhibition, which promoted sustainable, ecological, and socially inclusive ur
At the Niederhafen port area on the banks of the Elbe River, the British firm Zaha Hadid Architects has upgraded and reinforced the flood protection system of the northern German city of Hamburg. Resulting from a 2006 competition, the operation recon
This complex of 33 dwellings is the result of two successive negotiation processes. The first responds to a competition organized by the International Building Exhibition (IBA) of Hamburg in 2008 and is part of an urban development for the Wilhelmsbu
Located in the middle of Hamburg’s HafenCity, the Elbphilharmonie marks a location that was known to the public but not really accessible, and that will now become a center of social, cultural and daily life both for locals and visitors. The site is
The thick walls of a World War II bunker now shelter public facilities and a plant for the production of energy by cogeneration that is to supply power to the surrounding district.
The process of urban transformation of the Speicherstadt, in the south of Hamburg, began in the year 2000 with the aim of converting an area filled with port warehouses into a mixed-use district with residential and tertiary buildings of human scale.
This five star hotel and a retail and office building in Hamburg is part of a 110,000 m2 housing and office development on the former Bavaria brewery grounds, in the neighbourhood of St. Pauli. The extraordinary nature and history of the Bavaria grou
The Elbphilharmonie on the Kaispeicher will soon take its place among the landmarks of the city. Its two contradictory and superposed architectures will ensure exciting vistas for the public. On the one hand, the nostalgic feel of the original archit
Hamburg’s extense fluvial port is perhaps its least elegant side, but also its most attractive one. From its historic position on the north bank of the Elbe river, this vast commercial interchange has gradually taken up the endless branches into whic
Perhaps due precisely to its success, the port of Hamburg has taken its time to start reusing its installations for new purposes unrelated to sea transport activities. But the transfer of the large container terminals to the southern shore of the Elb
La Escuela de Música de Hamburgo, en cuyas aulas reciben formación musical jóvenes entre 4 y 25 años, es el resultado de un concurso ganado en enero de 1998. El edificio, que comenzó a construirse en febrero de 1999, tiene 1.600 metros cuadrados y al
Hamburg is harbor and city. A harbor 130 kilometers from the sea along the Elbe, which through a network of canals reaches all of inland Europe, linking it to overseas trade. And a city Free and Hanseatic, as its official name states, asserting the t
The expressionist dream of the glass pavilion drawn by figures like Bruno Taut, Wenzel Hablik, or the Luckhardt brothers has had to wait a hundred years to come true, but at least it has come true in Germany, and big time. After a decade of construct
In the olden days, when bricks were brought out of the kiln where they were baked, the pieces closest to the focus of heat – and therefore overbaked – were discarded on account of their dark burnt tone and their rough volcanic texture. At the start o
Energy flows everywhere but is invisible, as generally are the buildings where it is produced. One exception is the power plant of Wedel, near the city of Hamburg, which is soon to undergo transformation in accordance with a project drawn up by the L
On another notice, the Hamburger Kunsthalle has collected around 20 works around the concept of uninhabited space, interpreted in a different way by each one of the 19 photographers selected. While Andreas Gursky (see AVProyectos 022) reflects what t
Acaba de finalizarse la construcción del nuevo auditorio de la Escuela de Música de Hamburgo, con el que se completa el programa inicialmente previsto en la primera fase de la ampliación, proyectada por EMBT (Enric Miralles, Benedetta Tagliabue) y c
El estudio berlinés dirigido por Matthias Sauerbruch y Louisa Hutton ha ganado el concurso para la construcción de las nuevas oficinas de planificación urbana y ambiental de Hamburgo. El edificio consiste en una pieza de mayor altura y dos alas, unif
