FURTHER INFORMATION
FURTHER INFORMATION
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Contents
Contents
E S S E NTIAL S
Q UAR TE R S
P ROJ E C TS
EDITORIAL
ABOUT HAFENCITY
The HafenCity Project
The Foundation of HafenCity –
the Masterplan
QUARTERS
Am Sandtorkai/ Dalmannkai
Am Sandtorpark/ Grasbrook
Brooktorkai/ Ericus
Strandkai
Überseequartier
Elbtorquartier
Am Lohsepark
Oberhafen
Baakenhafen
Elbbrücken
ESSENTIALS
Sustainability
Cultural Highlights
Social Development
Public Urban Spaces
Infrastructure
DATA AND FACTS
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Publisher: HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, Osakaallee 11, D-20457 Hamburg V.i.S.d.P.: Susanne Bühler
Editor: André Stark
Translation: Georgina Watkins-Spies Final editing: Jo Dawes
Design: lab3 mediendesign, Hamburg Print: Langebartels & Jürgens, Hamburg
19th edition, Hamburg, March 2013, © 2013 All rights reserved
The information contained in this brochure is destined for the general public; there is no claim to the completeness and accuracy of statements. It must not be used for the risk evaluation of investment or other business decisions relating to the HafenCity project or to parts thereof.
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Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg, Chief Executive
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH
Editorial
Development Management and
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH
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s the site of both HafenCity and theInternational Building Exhibition (IBA), Hamburg is the setting for two of Europe’s most significant urban develop-ment projects. Both of them represent facets of a common task for the future facing many of Europe’s cities: how can major cities continue to grow in their cen-ter European-style (or extended cencen-ter), without abandoning their traditions, yet develop new qualities?
In 2013 the International Building Exhi-bition (IBA) Hamburg is presenting its projects to the experts and a broad public. At the same time, HafenCity has positive interim results to show after 12 years of construction, since its western section is already an urban place with around 2,000 residents and more than 450 businesses, numerous shops, cafés and restaurants, as well as a constantly growing number of visitors.
HafenCity’s potential for encoun-ter, the key to what sets urbanity apart from straightforward commercial suc-cess, grows by the day. Many visitors are astonished at what is already succeeding during this early development stage: in other words, that urbanistic quality is not only being aimed for, it is being realized. And in a place which lacks the privilege to mix existing buildings and new ones, for HafenCity is being virtually newly built, although port structures are being pre-served. An outcome of this kind is only possible through the collaboration of many different parties in a continuous process of ambitious concerted action.
HafenCity has high aspirations for sus-tainability: to achieve this, a compact urban structure, a forward-looking mobil-ity concept, highly efficient use of energy and “green” buildings are needed. In the development of neighborhoods to the east of Magdeburger Hafen, more than 70 percent of the buildings will qualify for the gold Ecolabel. With the decision to extend the U4 subway to Elbbrücken, the whole of HafenCity will have a very efficient public transport structure,
com-plemented by hydrogen-powered buses. This, in conjunction with multiple direct, attractive routes for cyclists and pedestri-ans, will put in place a sustainable struc-ture for mobility.
The year 2013 will bring many powerful and far-reaching impulses. The four-hect-are green heart of HafenCity, Lohsepark, is visibly taking shape, joining the new Grasbrookpark; construction work on the major bridge across Baakenhafen is compeleted in summer and the flood-preventive infrastructure development of the Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken neigh-borhoods is progressing. The first plots here have already been reserved for an upmarket mix of residential and employ-ment uses. The successful architectural competition for the “HafenCity Water-houses”, six sustainably built residential towers which will redefine living by the water, is setting new urban planning benchmarks.
It is exactly this rapid progress in the conception and realization of the east-ern neighborhoods that highlights the dynamism of HafenCity’s development. At the same time, a use concept for central Überseequartier is being vigor-ously pursued. The fundamental aim is unchanged: to encourage urbanity in an open urban structure by harnessing retail, residential, office and gastronomy uses to attract large numbers of visitors.
Big strides in construction and planning terms continue on Strandkai as well as in Am Lohsepark and Elbtorquartier neigh-borhoods. The essence of Hafen City is already becoming perceptible in the Elbe Arcades on Magdeburger Hafen, while HafenCity University, the most signifi-cant public place of higher education on the Elbe, is getting down to work in 2013. Infrastructure development, too, is run-ning at top speed, sharperun-ning the focus on residential construction, including its mix of subsidized housing, joint build-ing ventures, cooperative and privately owned homes. HafenCity has carved out its own qualitative path aside from
urban development and architecture. But it still has to implement that consid-erable ambition on more than half of the development area. The struggle to find the best solutions at the highest interna-tional standards continues. We are happy to enjoy support from so many agents in upholding the ambitions of HafenCity development.
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ajor urban development projects callfor strong interaction and coalescence between conception and realization. The considerable intricacy involved in securing and closely coordinating public invest-ment (around EUR 2.4 billion, of which approx. 1.5 billion is revenue from the sale of land) with acquisition of private invest-ment (around EUR 8 billion) results in very complex responsibilities and demands strong management.
In 1997 a port and urban development company (GHS) was set up to manage the development of HafenCity – since 2004 it has been known as HafenCity Hamburg GmbH. It is responsible for administration of the “special city and port fund” under public law: sales of land and areas of HafenCity almost completely owned by the City of Hamburg finance the lion’s share of public investment, notably roads, bridges, squares, parks, quays and prome-nades. In addition to this financing
respon-sibility, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH also clears and prepares sites, plans and builds public spaces as well as infrastructure, acquires and contracts real estate devel-opers and larger users, and is responsible for communication and marketing.
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH is a 100 per-cent subsidiary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Hamburg is a municipal-ity and one of the 16 federal states of Ger-many. The company is developing HafenCity at Hamburg’s behest. Public supervision, cooperation, and the division of responsibilities are demanding: the supervisory board of HafenCity Hamburg GmbH – chaired by the First Mayor – con-sists of members of the city senate (gov-ernment). Sales and options (with an obligation to plan) on land purchases have to be approved by the Land Commission; zoning plans are subject to consultation and approval from the Commission of Urban Development (made up largely of
parliamentary and local government rep-resentatives) and are processed by the HafenCity project group in the Ministry of Urban Development and Environment which also issues building permits. Juries for urban planning and open space compe-titions and for compecompe-titions for buildings comprise representatives of the Ministry of Urban Development and Environment (chief planning officer), the district coun-cil, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH and several politicians (from Mitte district or the city parliament) as well as private developers and independent architects.
By concentrating non-official functions in a dedicated development company of its own, Hamburg can ensure the effi-ciency and quality of the urban develop-ment project, yet through intensive division of labor and control also retain a high degree of public accountability.
ABOUT
A new downtown is growing: HafenCity – currently Europe’s largest inner-city development project – is a blueprint for the development of a European city on the waterfront
The HafenCity Project
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amburg is setting new standards in developing a new city area along the Elbe – at least in Europe. On an area of 157 hectares, a lively city with a maritime air is taking shape, bringing together workplace and residential uses, culture and leisure, tourism and retail facilities – quite unlike downtowns dominated by nothing but offices and shops. What sets it apart from other major urban international develop-ment projects on the water is the area’s very central location and the high expec-tations of quality reflected, for instance, in its fine-grained mix of uses, standards of urbanity and ecological sustainability, and innovative development process.The intensive interaction between land and water can also be regarded as unique, for HafenCity is not surrounded by dikes, nor cut off from the water. With the exception of the quays and promenades, the whole area will be raised to between 8 and 9m above sea level. The concept of building on artificial compacted mounds (warfts) lends an area once dominated by port and industrial uses a new, character-istic topography, retaining access to the water and the typical port atmosphere, while guaranteeing protection from extreme floods. At the same time, the objectives of HafenCity development are very wide-ranging.
DEFINITION OF A COMPLETELY NEW URBAN DISTRICT
The task in hand is to define a new downtown in both urban planning and architectural terms. More than 2.32 mil-lion sqm gross floor area (GFA) will be built. HafenCity consists almost wholly of new buildings, since not many old ones were retained or worth preserving, as the site of HafenCity was largely occupied by single-story sheds. This is still the case in eastern HafenCity. A total 6,000
residen-tial units for 12,000 residents are being built, as well as business premises offer-ing in excess of 45,000 job opportunities, plus restaurants and bars, cultural and leisure amenities, retail facilities, parks, plazas and promenades.
The urban planning and architectural reinterpretation of the place centers on established structures. Its milieu is informed by the Speicherstadt, port structures and a few existing buildings, as well as the widespread use of red clin-ker brick opposite the Speicherstadt and in the center.
DEVELOPMENT FROM WEST TO EAST
HafenCity is being developed from west to east and from north to south – 51 proj-ects are completed and another 35 under construction or in the planning stage; deals on around 1 million sqm GFA have either been completed through sale of land or exclusive options (status: Janu-ary 2013). Western neighborhoods are already pulsing with life. They are already well established as residential or work locations: almost 1,400 living spaces have been completed. Around 450 companies have already located in HafenCity. The largest office users are Germanischer Lloyd, in situ since spring 2010 with around 1,600 staff in its new head office in Brooktorkai/Ericus and, since fall 2011, the Spiegel group on Ericusspitze.
In 2009, Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai led the way as the first completed neigh-borhood in HafenCity, apart from the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall. This new icon designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron is growing skywards on top of historic Kaispeicher A. Now, after some delay, the new Hamburg landmark, pro-viding two concert auditoria, a five-star hotel and around 45 apartments will be completed in 2016.
HafenCity will enlarge Hamburg’s city area by 40 percent. A whole new city district is emerging south of the historic Speicherstadt, with an urban mix of homes, workplaces, culture, leisure, tourism and commerce (photo shows status in summer 2012)
aim is to set international standards for conceptual and architectural quality, it is very important to attract investors and developers willing to cooperate in set-ting high quality standards and in tread-ing innovative paths.
Tenders are invited for plots scheduled for residential use; the competition result is decisive. It is not the highest bid that is successful – the crucial factor for awarding the contract is the quality of the use concepts submitted. Sites for office buildings are not generally pro-cessed this way. Instead, companies
planning to staff 60 to 70 percent of a building or site for their own purposes can apply to HafenCity Hamburg GmbH. EXCLUSIVE OPTIONS
ENSURE qUALITY
Whatever the type of land use, the nec-essary ratification by the Land Commis-sion is followed by an exclusive option period with an obligation to plan. The investor/user then has to proceed, in conjunction with the City of Hamburg, with an architectural competition, may
commission site surveys, and has to pre-pare for building approval. Throughout this process, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, the authorities and the buyer remain in constant dialog.
The advantage of this process for the developer is that financing of the pur-chase price is postponed until after the building permit is granted; until then it has adequate time to hone the quality of its product, secure finance and perhaps acquire additional users. At the same time the city retains its ability to ensure the building’s quality by intervening dur-ing the development process which lasts for one and a half years after award of the option, thus ensuring that the origi-nally submitted use concepts and time schedules will be adhered to, since the purchase cannot go through until the building permit is received. This encour-ages cooperation – with both city and developer optimizing risks, costs, quality and time scales.
For Hamburg, HafenCity is more than a major real estate project in which the individual undertakings need to be real-ized as quickly and efficiently as possi-ble – rather, within the context of a new definition of a city for the 21st century, the end product should be of exemplary urban quality.
HafenCity is made up of ten very different neighborhoods
Next door, the second large neighbor-hood, Am Sandtorpark/Grasbrook, fol-lowed at the beginning of 2011. A primary school with nursery and kindergarten offering all-day supervision opened in 2009; many families have settled in its proximity. The third neighborhood, Brooktorkai/Ericus with its two major users, Germanischer Lloyd and the Spie-gel group, was completed in fall 2011. The first building ensemble in Strandkai quar-ter, consisting of Unilever’s headquarters and the Marco Polo residential tower, has already reaped architectural awards. The neighborhood’s Elbe Terraces and prom-enade were the first open spaces realized directly bordering the River Elbe. The 400 or so apartments planned for the tip of the quay will be built in 2014.
URBAN SPACES AROUND MAgDEBURgER HAFEN TAkE CENTER STAgE
Überseequartier, the heart of Hafen-City, covering an area of 13.7 hectares, already reveals impressive metropolitan character. Its development extends Hamburg city center right down to the River Elbe. The north of the neighbor-hood is already home to 500 residents, while shops and services along the Bou-levard have long since opened for busi-ness and the first hotel in HafenCity has been accommodating guests since 2011.
In the south of the neighborhood, the new U4 subway started regular services to Überseequartier station in December 2012. It links HafenCity directly to Jung-fernstieg subway station and the Central Railroad Station. This area, in addition to the Cruise Terminal and the two “Water-houses”, will also include further build-ings planned for retail and office uses. Once construction recommences, this neighborhood should be more or less completed in 2016.
In Elbtorquartier, the “knowledge quarter” of the future, on the eastern side of Magdeburger Hafen basin, the International Maritime Museum Ham-burg opened in the historic port ware-house Kaispeicher B back in 2008. A little to the south toward the Elbe, the new HafenCity University (HCU) build-ing will be ready by the end of 2013. The “Elbarkaden”, an ensemble housing the new German Greenpeace headquarters, designport hamburg and a residential block, will be finished in mid-2013. Other innovative projects, such as the Ecu-menical Forum, are completed already or under construction, including the musicians’ house and the Stadthausho-tel, an inclusive hotel run by disabled people.
The starting signal for use of Hafen-City’s public center was the inauguration of the open spaces around Magdeburger Hafen in June 2011. The result is an
ensem-ble of promenades and squares through which HafenCity and the existing city center are growing together. On foot via the central “Domplatz” axis, the Inner Alster and harbor are only 900m apart and the distance is quickly covered.
The Am Lohsepark neighborhood marks the transition to the eastern sec-tion of HafenCity. The first residential building projects there got under way in 2012, as did work on Lohsepark, the cen-tral HafenCity park, functioning as a “green link” between Brooktorhafen and the Elbe. In the same year, development also successfully kicked off in the three eastern neighborhoods of Baakenhafen, Oberhafen and Elbbrücken. The first sec-tions of Lohsepark will be finished in 2013/14.
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS HafenCity Hamburg GmbH pulls the strings, overseeing all activities as the city’s manager of development, prop-erty owner and developer of infrastruc-ture (except the subway).
Since October 1, 2006, HafenCity has had so-called priority area status: all zoning plans are discussed by the Com-mission for Urban Development set up for this purpose, representing all politi-cal parties in Hamburg’s City Parliament. Building permission is granted by the Urban Development Ministry. Since the
The cityscape is influenced by the intensive interplay between water and land Am Sandtorkai/ Dalmannkai Strandkai Überseequartier Brooktorkai/Ericus Elbtorquartier Am Sandtorpark/ Grasbrook Am Lohsepark Oberhafen Baakenhafen Elbbrücken
way connections – it is very much seen as part of the new city core. Another fac-tor is that Hamburg is making its “leap across the Elbe” right now, with ambi-tious projects such as the international building exhibition (IBA) and the inter-national garden show (igs) in 2013 south of HafenCity.
Redefinition of the Masterplan was led by HafenCity Hamburg GmbH in conjunction with the Hamburg Urban Development and Environment Minis-try as well as the principal authors of the original Masterplan, Kees Chris-tiaanse, with ASTOC. In 2010 there was intensive public discussion, with a pro-gram of more than 40 events. The reworked draft is being honed in further phases (urban design competitions, landscape competitions and architec-tural competitions).
EASTERN DISTRICTS gET THEIR OWN PROFILES
The three eastern neighborhoods are more extensive but less integrated into the existing city than western and central HafenCity. Their proximity to transport routes also calls for noise protection plan-ning. But this also creates special oppor-tunities to give the eastern neighborhoods an identity of their own.
Their urban development structure is closely related to conditions for their uti-lization. Each neighborhood will have its own focus: Baakenhafen as a place for liv-ing and for leisure, Oberhafen for creative and cultural uses, and Elbbrücken as a metropolitan location for business and housing.
Additional land area will be gained, for example, by partially filling in Baaken-hafen harbor basin, which will lead to more green landscape and allow a second line of residential buildings in a location protected from noise. In place of the orig-inal target of around 1.5 million sqm of gross floor area (GFA) in the whole of HafenCity, increased area and density now mean that 2.32 million sqm GFA can be realized. Land area overall increases from 123 to 127 hectares.
Reworking of the Masterplan also means that the number of homes that can be built is much higher. In eastern HafenCity housing can be built in places previously not considered very suitable. A total of 2,800 housing units will be cre-ated in Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken, rais-ing the total number of homes in HafenCity from 5,500 to 6,000, with the calculation of average unit size increased to 110 sqm GFA. Community building associations will receive more consider-ation in site tenders and larger quantities of subsidized public rented housing will also be built. Additional primary and sec-ondary schools as well as child daycare facilities will also enhance HafenCity’s attractions as a place for families to live. The number of potential jobs also rises markedly from 40,000 to well over 45,000. The new jobs will be primarily in leisure, retail, catering and hotels.
MORE gREEN AND HIgH SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS
The leafy character of HafenCity will be intensified. Squares, small and large, and links between them will advance urban spatial integration. Lohsepark, the “Cen-tral Park” of HafenCity, will be extended down to the River Elbe. In the south, an Elbe promenade may encourage people to stroll on to Entenwerder; an area for leisure is to be created in Baakenhafen harbor basin.
The total area of public spaces in Hafen-City increases from 24 to 26 hectares (not counting private areas accessible to the public); the public waterfront extends from 10 to 10.5km.
The high standards of sustainability set in the western neighborhoods will actu-ally be outdone by the east. This progress is due to the innovative heat supply con-cept as well as the planned high propor-tion of new buildings qualifying for the gold HafenCity Ecolabel. The extension of the U4 subway line to Elbbrücken station makes another important contribution to environmental quality.
Eastern HafenCity has excellent road infrastructure. Its accessibility for through-traffic, however, will result in heightened exposure to traffic noise in some places. For such locations, intelli-gent urban planning and technical con-cepts will therefore be applied. Along Versmannstrasse – a main traffic artery – mixed use buildings, with their broad backs turned toward the road, provide noise-protected areas to the southern side. The semi-enclosed residential ensembles will form inner courtyards, which will ensure sheltered neighborly coexistence.
The reworking of the Masterplan fur-ther reinforces HafenCity’s function as a city. For the first time the plan’s provi-sions for the urban development scheme now embrace the entire area through to its easternmost point, laying down high-est standards.
The Foundation of HafenCity: the Masterplan
For more than ten years, Hamburgers have been watching a city take shape. In the mainly completed west, HafenCity is already a lively place; the center is under construction and preparations for the start of building in the eastern section are under way
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afenCity is one of the most remark-able urban redevelopment schemes on a waterfront world wide. Its trend-setting concept will see the area of Hamburg City Center enlarged by 40 percent, with the development sparking impulses not only for the existing city center, but also for the municipality with its 1.8 million inhabitants as well as the surrounding metropolitan region, home to around 5 million people. In the process Hamburg’s identity as a mari-time city is being reinforced, while HafenCity simultaneously becomes a model for the development of the 21stcentury European city center. It is already regarded as a showcase for major international urban development projects, though its development time-frame extends to 2025.
NEW CORE INNER CITY CREATED
Development of HafenCity is essen-tially based on a Masterplan approved by the Hamburg Senate on February 29, 2000, which was developed further for the eastern section of HafenCity after wide-ranging public discussions in 2010.
For the previous ten years the Master-plan, with its concept for an urban hori-zontal and vertical mix of uses and its flexible basic framework, served as a good point of departure for develop-ment of old port sites south of the city center. However it contained no detailed planning for the three eastern neighbor-hoods, Oberhafen, Baakenhafen and Elb-brücken.
Also the underlying circumstances changed during the past decade. Initial-ly, eastern HafenCity was regarded almost as the inner-city fringe of Ham-burg, yet now – partly due to new
sub-With the reworking 2010 of the Masterplan for eastern HafenCity, the new district as a whole is taking shape, continuing the success story of the western neighborhoods right through to the Elbbrücken bridges
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Almost all other plazas and promenades in this neighborhood – and the whole western end of HafenCity – were planned by EMBT of Barcelona. Basements and promenades on Sandtorkai, however, were designed by BHF Landschaftsarchi-tekten, which won the “best projects of 1989-2008” award from the “Architecture in Hamburg” yearbook in 2008. The cityscape itself reflects the variety in the quarter: on Dalmannkai alone, 15 build-ings were realized by 27 developers and 26 firms of architects, creating adequate diversity.
A VARIETY OF LIFESTYLES SIDE BY SIDE
Lifestyles in the immediate neighbor-hood are as disparate as the architecture: around 1,500 people live and work in the quarter. Young working singles and fami-lies live side by side with “empty nesters” (couples whose children have left home) and seniors. They meet up for activities in sport and cultural clubs and enlarge their networks, as they do socially through Netzwerk HafenCity e.V.
This socially differentiated structure is also the result of a selective tendering and award procedure: as from 2003, sites for housing no longer went to the highest bidder. Instead the developer with the best use concept was given an exclusive option on the property. Many apartments are financially within reach of mid-income-earners, while some are
The promenade on Sandtorhafen harbor is a popular place for a stroll – not only because of the ships in the Traditional Ship Harbor
in the luxury segment. Much more affordable living accommodation was realized through building cooperatives and three joint building ventures. As well as the residents, the employees of the approximately 50 businesses also influ-ence the quarter’s atmosphere. The majority of local businesses offer mod-ern services, primarily in the media and logistics sectors, and – as long as con-struction in HafenCity continues – also building services. Residents, office work-ers and visitors come into contact in the shops, bistros, cafés, restaurants, galler-ies and bars occupying 6,500 sqm of floor space on the ground floors of most buildings. Some concepts pick up on the special characteristics of this former port area and transform them into business ideas.
It was in this neighborhood that a major project succeeded for the first time in integrating public amenities into ground floors on a larger scale. The condition in sale contracts and zoning plans requiring 5m ceilings in ground floors, the reduced prices for ground floor space and the investor’s obligation to seek correspond-ing users have laid the foundations for a growing vitality that will flourish even more with the Elbphilharmonie.
Of course the principle of dense mix of uses also presents challenges which demand innovative solutions. For instance, residents want to have areas of privacy. The buildings on southern Dal-mannkai are thus grouped around
inter-nal courtyards opening toward the south allowing unobstructed views of Gras-brookhafen harbor and the river, yet dif-ficult to see into from the lower-lying promenade. It is no discrepancy that the private and public exist side by side in Am Sandtorpark/Dalmannkai – quite to the contrary, this coexistence is a definite sign of quality, both in the neighborhood and the whole of HafenCity.
Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai in northwest HafenCity was the fi rst quarter to be completed
Fine-grained and Alive: HafenCity’s First Neighborhood
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he coexistence of urbanity with vil-lage-like life on the waterfront is what gives this neighborhood its real charm. Within the space of just six years, therefore, the Am Sandtorkai/ Dalmannkai neighborhood was the first quarter in HafenCity to be completed, in spring 2009. Sandtorhafen harbor basin is the neighborhood’s core, with the pontoons of the Traditional Ship Harbor providing a floating plaza with moor-ings for up to 30 vessels.To the north of the harbor is Sandtorkai with the listed Speicherstadt on its other side. To the south is the Dalmannkai promontory and Grasbrookhafen harbor. The views from the eight buildings on Sandtorkai and the 15 buildings on Dal-mannkai encompass the city center, as well as the River Elbe.
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mannkai point in the shape of the Elb-philharmonie Concert Hall: its publicly accessible plaza, at a height of 37m, has spectacular views of HafenCity and the Elbe. Until its completion in 2016, the Elb-philharmonie will be the neighborhood’s only building still under construction.
Multidimensional topography contin-ues on the Magellan and Marco Polo Ter-races, the largest squares in the locality and in the whole of HafenCity: like an amphitheater, the 5,600 sqm of the Magellan Terraces descend in a series of steps to the water. The 7,800 sqm Marco Polo Terraces with their grass islands and wooden decking invite passersby to take a break under the trees. Vasco da Gama Plaza, the smaller third square, is a neighborhood square with a basket-ball court.
OPEN, MULTIDIMENSIONAL TOPOgRAPHY
The urban spaces extend over two lev-els. While all buildings and roads are built on artificially raised, flood-protected bases, around 8m above sea level, embankment promenades remain at 4 to 5.5m above sea level. The difference in height is particularly noticeable to the north of Sandtorkai. There unusually, in consideration of the adjacent Speicher-stadt, the road (Am Sandtorkai) lies at a low level, and the new basement founda-tions on the other side resemble a wall.
The Traditional Ship Harbor pontoons provide a third level of urban perception which rises and falls with the tide twice daily by more than 3m. A further level still – the fourth – is emerging on
Dal-The Elbphilharmonie: until its completion in 2016, it will be the only building still under construction in the quarter
■ Area: 10.9 hectares
Total GFA: 261,000 sqm
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Jobs: approx. 2,700 Uses: corporate, offices, retail, gastronomy
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746 (excl. Elbphilharmonie)
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building to the north of Grasbrookpark, puts the emphasis on residential build-ing. Plans by BKK-3 architects (Vienna) currently foresee 150 apartments here (including building cooperative units and subsidized housing), a kindergarten and space for an organic restaurant and retail uses.
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CORPORATE LOCATION
The neighborhood is very interna-tional. In the Hamburg-America-Center designed by US architect Richard Meier, the Amerikazentrum Hamburg e.V. soci-ety offers a program of varied cultural events. The largest area of space in the office building bordering the park has been occupied since fall 2011 by the Buss group’s new corporate headquarters.
The three buildings of the adjacent Coffee Plaza were also conceived by Pritzker prizewinner Meier. It was devel-oped by the Neumann family, whose Neumann group occupies the 13-story Ellipse tower, the neighborhood’s archi-tectonic landmark visible from afar. Since August 2012, it has also housed the headquarters of the Eukor shipping line. One of the first businesses to move in was the new offshore technology center of GE Wind Energy GmbH. The promi-nent Korean shipping line Hanjin Ship-ping is one of the companies moving in here in 2013.
OWN FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY
Two further buildings in Sandtorpark offer space for companies: the new 16,000 sqm GFA SKAI building was designed by the Hamburg firm of Böge Lindner architects. Three more wind energy businesses have taken space in SKAI: WKU Windkraftunion AG, Power Wind GmbH and Areva Wind GmbH. In one of the shops, E-Collection has also been presenting the latest concepts in alternative energy, ranging from mini wind turbines to e-bikes. In the mean-time, through its users, the neighbor-hood itself has become a model of sustainability.
The Centurion business center (14,600 sqm GFA), for instance, holder of the HafenCity Ecolabel in gold and sited to the south west of Grasbrookpark, tends to attract mainly smaller and medium-size businesses, although the building also houses its developer DC Commer-cial, the co-investor Wölbern Invest and the Dahler & Company group. Ground floors are used by catering concerns and retailers.
The first business to be established in the neighborhood in 2003 was SAP with its office building and training center. The software producer is relinquishing its HafenCity location, making way for a new prime user from fall 2013, Kühne Logistics University (KLU). After various
Sandtorpark is an urban planning focus in the quarter. Most of the buildings are grouped around it
Living and working in green surroundings – below left is the neighborhood's last project, the building to the north of Grasbrookpark
AM SANDTORPARK / GRASBROOK
With a green neighborhood park at its heart, the new Am Sandtorpark/Grasbrook quarter offers ideal conditions for residents, pupils at its new primary school – and growing companies
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m Sandtorpark/Grasbrook is the sec-ond large neighborhood to be virtu-ally completed. The quarter between Sandtorhafen harbor in the west and Überseequartier in the east, with its pri-mary school and family housing around the park, has long been a haven of neigh-borly life.The key local urban element setting the scene is the small yet popular Sand-torpark, around which almost all the buildings cluster. HafenCity’s first park was inaugurated with a neighborhood street party in April 2011. Landscaping of
the green play areas is dominated by lawns and hillocks. Open spaces border-ing it replicate the main design ele-ments of the Magellan Terraces, such as the paving; a successful device in the open space landscaping concept for western HafenCity by architects EMBT of Barcelona, drawing together the vari-ous surfaces. By the summer of 2013, the 7,100 sqm Grasbrookpark will also be ready. This large grassy play park is the interface with neighboring Strandkai quarter.
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Classes at HafenCity’s Katharinenschule school on Sandtorpark started in August 2009. A total 450 children can be looked after in kindergarten, after-school care or all-day supervision. The integrated sports hall is intensively used after school as well, e.g. by Störtebeker sports club or sports groups from local companies. The school building, designed by architects Spengler & Wiescholek, also houses 30 apartments and is one of the few in Ger-many to include mixed uses, as well as having most of its play area on the roof. The building was awarded the gold HafenCity Ecolabel.
Right next to Katharinenschule school live the new occupants of the Hafenliebe joint building venture in their 55 family-friendly homes. Another 68 apartments have been realized in the Hofquartier project. The neighborhood’s last project in the current phase, construction of the
interior building alterations have been carried out, students of logistics and management will move in and the for-mer SAP building will become the KLU building. Kühne + Nagel moved into its German head office and international IT headquarters directly next door in 2006.
■ Area: 5.7 hectares
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Many promenades and open spaces along the embankment are an invitation to take a break
Architects (Copenhagen). The architec-tural concept closely references the Speicherstadt and the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, thus paying tribute to the urban planning significance of the loca-tion as the entrée to central HafenCity. Unusually, due to traffic noise, residential uses in this small neighborhood are not significant.
A BRIDgE ALMOST LIkE A SqUARE
Outside, the Brooktorkai open space is extended by Shanghaibrücke road bridge, designed by Dietmar Feichtinger (Paris, Vienna), crossing Brooktorhafen harbor. Almost as wide as it is long, the bridge offers generous space for pedes-trians and cyclists. On the northern side, the promenade leads under the bridge, which will provide a route free of road crossings from Ericusspitze along Brook-torhafen, Magdeburger Hafen and Baak-enhafen to the Elbe. The Hamburg
association of architects and engineers chose Shanghaibrücke as one of three Hamburg Buildings of the Year in 2006. Another pedestrian bridge, designed by Dietmar Feichtinger, which also won the award the following year, Leonbrücke, connects the new Brooktorhafen har-borside promenade with the new Dar es Salaam square, which was opened in June 2011 as part of the Magdeburger Hafen open space ensemble. The bridge, together with the promenades, forms the backbone of the close-knit footpath system in HafenCity.
CHANgINg LEVELS
The landscaping of large open spaces on Brooktorkai and at Ericusspitze was carried out by WES & Partner Land-schaftsarchitekten (Hamburg). A 30m stone sofa on Brooktorkai promenade looks out over the harbor basin, spacious steps at Ericusspitze invite strolling pass-ersby to change levels – steps for sitting
The mainly red-brick clinker façades in Brooktorhafen clearly reference the historic Speicherstadt, the primary infl uence on the milieu of the quarter
MAJOR PUBLISHINg HOUSE MARkS ENTRY TO HAFENCITY
At the northeastern entrance to Hafen- City Robert Vogel GmbH & Co. KG and the ABG group of companies have built a new publishing building for the Spiegel group and the Ericus Contor building with fur-ther office space. In September 2011, the Spiegel group brought its activities together in around 30,000 sqm gross floor area (GFA). The new Spiegel building was awarded the HafenCity Ecolabel in gold in 2012. The publishing house and Ericus Contor (20,000 sqm GFA) with their pale façades and massive shared plinth were planned by Henning Larsen been preparing students for their future
careers in international business since 2010.
The outstanding feature of Brooktorkai is the meandering structure of its archi-tecture, visually broken up and enhanced by three nine-floor tower blocks. The red-brick facework of the building ensemble echoes the color of the nearby Speicherstadt. The firm of gmp, von Ger-kan, Marg und Partner (Hamburg), won the urban design competition for Brook-torkai (excluding Ericusspitze). Also suc-cessful in architectural competitions alongside gmp were Jan Störmer archi-tects (Hamburg) and Antonio Citterio and Partners (Milan).
Brooktorkai/Ericus’ position between the Speicherstadt and existing city center makes it well suited as a corporate location
Corporate Location in the Speicherstadt
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he Brooktorkai/Ericus neighborhood has a specifically maritime character: it is fringed by the historic brick buildings of the Speicherstadt, by Brooktorhafen, and the water passage linking Hollän-dischbrookfleet canal. The western part of Brooktorkai, comprising a total 54,000 sqm gross floor area (GFA), was developed by Germanischer Lloyd AG and Quantum Immobilien AG.The move here of 1,600 employees of Germanischer Lloyd in March 2010 was the biggest corporate relocation into HafenCity so far. One of the three towers in the ensemble contains 30 apartments with views of the emerging green space of Lohsepark. Right next door, the Inter-national School of Management has
or walking on rise to a plaza with views over the Ericus canal and Oberhafen har-bor basin.
The new Spiegel publishing house and Ericus Contor form the central entry to HafenCity; the “window” in the façade seems to make a grand urban gesture. One neighbor in the adjoining meandering structure of Brooktorkai is the head offi ce of Germanischer Lloyd
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STRANDKAI
Surrounded by water and parks, Strandkai offers spectacular views, optimum locations for homes and such outstanding office buildings as Unilever headquarters
Residential and Workplaces by the Water
MARCO POLO TOWER WINS REAL ESTATE “OSCAR”
The Marco Polo Tower (58), with its 58 apartments, has also won several awards. In 2010, the residential tower won the real estate “Oscar”, the MIPIM award, in the residential developments category. The previous year it was named best building in the European Property Awards. The whole ensemble is a land-mark, with the 55m high tower and its staggered stories visible from far away.
On the site directly adjacent to the east, a headquarters building for real estate group Engel & Völkers is to be completed by 2015. Around half of the 22,000 sqm GFA complex (60) is planned for residential uses and public amenities. The apartments will be on the southern side, as well as in the 15-story tower on the northwest side. A public area with restaurants is planned for the ground floor. Engel & Völkers also plans a top quality space for exhibitions and
presen-tation events connected with its real estate and yacht business. Following an architectural competition for the build-ing, which was won by the New York office of Richard Meier & Partners ahead of rivals Foster + Partners (London) and Zaha Hadid (London), construction should begin in early 2014. Further to the east, the provisional cruise terminal will be replaced in the foreseeable future by a new building.
LIVINg ON THE qUAY POINT
To the west of Unilever Haus on Strand-kai point, around 430 residential units are to be erected on three plots (55-57) by 2015/2016. Plans foresee perimeter block building typologies, with two resi-dential towers setting urban accents. On the ground floor the Kinderkulturhaus, a children’s arts center, will take up more than 1,000 sqm space. However, other additional public amenities will mean that Strandkai, with its waterside
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een from the Elbe bridges, Strandkai quarter is already a conspicuous part of Hamburg’s city silhouette. Its hybrid perimeter blocks are structured in six to seven-story building ensembles punctu-ated by high tower tops and individual towers, stand-alone or integrated. These high-points provide far-reaching views: downstream along the River Elbe, to thesouth across the port, to the north and west over Grasbrook harbor, HafenCity and the city center.
The urban design competition for the ten building plots was won by Böge Lind-ner architects (Hamburg). The south-eastern end of the neighborhood mainly comprises office space for modern service businesses. No homes will be built here
due to proximity to the cruise terminal. The majority of residential units are being built at Grasbrookpark nearby, although the most desirable locations on the tip of the promontory are reserved exclusively for living space, apart from ground floors.
OUTSTANDINg SUSTAINABILITY
The first building erected to the south of the Marco Polo Terraces is a prize-winning ensemble consisting of an office building and a residential tower. Both buildings were designed by the Stuttgart office of Behnisch architects. The office building (59) has been in use since summer 2009 by consumer goods group Unilever as its headquarters for German-speaking coun-tries. Its 1,200 employees now occupy 25,000 sqm GFA. The building’s ecologi-cal sustainability is impressive: it was the first office building to be awarded the gold HafenCity Ecolabel in 2011. Unilever’s building had already won the BEX award for particularly sustainable, innovative and efficient architecture in July 2009. In November 2009, at the World Architec-ture Awards in Barcelona, it was desig-nated World’s Best Office Building. Recently the German architectural asso-ciation (BDA) Hamburg awarded the Uni-lever building first prize for architecture of the construction years 2008-2010. It also won the readers’ prize from Welt/ Welt am Sonntag newspapers.
The interior of the Unilever office building impresses with an atrium flooded with natural light, and open-plan offices with horizontally staggered work stations. A public urban space with shops runs through the ground floor, linking the Marco Polo Terraces to the newly landscaped Elbe waterfront promenade. The Elbterrassen make a dramatic entrée to the riverfront.
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Strandkai offers fabulous views: across the River Elbe and of the huge cruise ships that tie up at the cruise terminal almost daily
Up to now Strandkai was dominated by the striking Unilever building and Marco Polo Tower, which can be seen from far away. Three additional buildings with almost 430 residential units will join them 2014/15
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■ Area: 8.4 hectares
Total GFA: 243,000 sqm
■ Jobs and commercial uses
Jobs: approx. 4,770 Uses: offices, hotel, retail, catering
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The north of Überseequartier (right) has been mostly fi nished since 2010, the south (left) will be under development until at least 2016 (shows status in summer 2012)
ÜBERSEEQUARTIER
The commercial heart of HafenCity is Überseequartier. The urban qualities of northern Überseeboulevard are increasingly apparent, yet the south is still a huge building site in waiting
Überseequartier – a New Segment of City Emerges
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berseequartier is growing into the future “city” of HafenCity. This urban space, covering about 13.7 hectares, will be home to around 1,000 people and the workplace of up to 7,000 more. Between 40,000 and 50,000 visitors and tourists will then be entering the neighborhood – every day.By 2016, the whole quarter should be virtually complete. It will boast a particu-larly sophisticated mix of commercial uses that is being realized successively north to south.
The northern part of the boulevard, the most densely built space in HafenCity so far, with a GFA index of more than 5.0, was opened with a street party back in October 2010.
An increasing number of retailers and restaurants and bars are catering for the new residents of the completed rental apartments. A large supermarket has
opened, as well as a variety of service businesses. They are not only looking after the daily needs of residents but, together with new galleries and fashion designers, providing important urban accents.
Several major office users, such as law-yers Sozietät Esche Schümann Com-michau and petroleum multi BP have decided to locate to Überseequartier. Most of the space in buildings here is already leased.
In summer 2011 the 25hours Hotel opened, hotelier Kai Hollmann’s first project in HafenCity. Across the road from the hotel on Überseeallee (34/7), with its maritime-themed rooms, the new U4 line Überseequartier subway stop opened in December 2012.
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For the open-space landscaping of the neighborhood, Beth Galí and her firm BB + GG Arquitectes used overlapping lon-gitudinal and horizontally striped floor-ing of brown, grey and reddish granite. Throughout the area, the open space architect plays with variable ground lev-els, using ramps, steps or terraces to link them.
The architecture of the individual buildings is just as impressive. The Sumatra Building, designed by Erick van Egeraat (34/6) with its dramatically slanted façade, is an eye-catcher, con-trasting excitingly with the former har-bor master’s office (Altes Hafenamt 34/5) opposite. Surrounding the Altes Hafenamt, built in 1885/86 and the last remaining historic brick-built building in this area, is the gastronomic core of HafenCity, to be complemented by an outdoor market. Plans for its renovation and the slim residential tower exten-sion are by Bolles + Wilson architects.
SCIENCE CENTER WATERFRONT TOWERS KAMBALA SUMATRA VIRGINIA PACAMARA JAVA ARABICA CEYLON LIMBA MERANTI LINNEN SILK PALISANDER U U U HOTEL & CRUISE CENTER ALTES HAFENAMT – CINNAMON ■ Area: 13.7 hectares Total GFA: 303,000 sqm (including Science Center)
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Jobs: approx. 6,500 Uses: living, office, retail, catering, hotel
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Cruise Center, Old harbor master’s office, U4 subway station Überseequartier
■ Development timeframe
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Estate decided to withdraw in general from real estate project development in Europe, outside the Netherlands, leav-ing the Überseequartier consortium as a result. Its remaining partners, SNS and G&P, assumed all its rights and obliga-tions. This opened the way for altera-tions to the concept with respect to retail, weather protection and use of upper stories, but also for accelerating the development of the Altes Hafenamt and of southern Überseequartier on the waterside with the Cruise Terminal and Waterfront Towers. Talks about supple-menting the consortium have also been held in the meantime.
JUNgFERNSTIEg JUST A FEW MINUTES AWAY
Since December 2012, Überseequartier has been directly connected to the pub-lic transport network through the new U4 subway line. Back in June 2011, when the areas of promenade and plaza beside Magdeburger Hafen harbor basin (on the east side of northern Übersee-quartier) were opened with a big street party, the Domplatz axis brought the Inner Alster and the Elbe even closer together. Pedestrians can walk from City Hall via Domplatz to Überseequartier in ten minutes, at most. But Überseequart-ier is also easy to reach by car. The large parking garage running underneath the whole of pedestrianized Überseequar-tier has around 3,400 spaces, of which 1,200 are in use so far. It is also con-nected to the city’s centrally controlled parking guidance system.
DEVELOPMENT DOWN TO THE ELBE
The management company responsi-ble for the quarter was already at work during the final construction phase of northern Überseequartier; it shoulders many responsibilities on behalf of all users and proprietors of individual build-ings: e.g. organization of cultural uses in the neighborhood, security and mainte-nance of the urban environment. This
Überseeboulevard, the central shopping street, runs through the middle of the neighborhood. Its thoroughfares and squares are enlivened by the many shops and cafés
reinforces the public character of Über-seequartier, making viable intensive public access. Although traffic areas between buildings are also privately owned, provisions in purchase contracts and land registration documentation guarantee that public right of use in Überseequartier functions in the same way as for streets and squares. This means that, for example, demonstra-tions or busking are possible, and that information stands can be erected.
It still requires a little imagination to picture Überseeequartier as the central core of HafenCity. But in the meantime the southern area is gaining momentum thanks to factors such as the completion of the northern section, the opening of the U4 subway stop in the south, as well ence Center (34/12). But it is above all the
double stand-alone towers by Büro UN Studio (Ben van Berkel) that form the unmistakable southern conclusion of the urban ensemble. They will also inter-play excitingly with the new Cruise Ter-minal, for which building work will probably start in 2014, together with its large hotel, bus station and underground parking garage.
NEW STRUCTURES
Development of Überseequartier kicked off in 2003 with a two-tier international investor competition which concluded with the sale of the site in December 2005 to a Dutch-German consortium (con-sisting of ING Real Estate, SNS Property Finance and Groß + Partner Grundstücks-entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH). Interna-tionally renowned architects created an overall planning concept for the area on the basis of an urban Masterplan (Trojan Trojan + Partner). Just two years later, in the fall of 2007, construction work began on northern Überseequartier. While the finance crisis initially stood in the way of construction of the southern section, the concept for the northern section, with an investment volume of around EUR 350 million, and an ambitious mix of uses, has been implemented.
In December 2012, as a further conse-quence of the finance crisis, ING Real
Perfectly situated in transport terms, Überseequartier lies at the heart of HafenCity. Increasing numbers of retailers and restaurants are settling in the northern area
Construction of the residential tower starts June 2013 and, after the restora-tion of the Altes Hafenamt to cultural heritage standards, will round off devel-opment of northern Überseequartier. The same architects were also respon-sible for the long since opened informa-tion pavilion. There models and multimedia exhibits have been giving visitors insights into the development of Überseequartier since 2008.
On Plots 34/15 and 34/16, an outstand-ingly varied mix of uses including resi-dential, hotel, cinema and entertainment facilities is planned by a joint venture of real estate company DC Commercial, hotelier Kai Hollman, Miniatur Wunder-land, Schmidt’s Tivoli and cinema impre-sario Hans Joachim Flebbe. The project offers gross floor space of around 31,000 sqm on a plot of some 6,500 sqm. A total 125 apartments will share around 17,400 sqm. At least one third of residential space is planned for subsidized living and one third each for privately financed rental home construction and privately owned apartments. Following the assignment of exclusive planning rights at the end of 2012, an architectural com-petition is to follow. Detailed planning will be completed for the project and the financing conclusively resolved. This very ambitious concept will then fill in the last remaining building plot across from the Speicherstadt.
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PULSATINg ÜBERSEEBOULEVARDThe northern part of the quarter is so far dominated by apartments, office space and smaller shops, but a much stronger retail orientation is foreseen for the southern section, although not development of a closed-in, air-condi-tioned shopping center type. Instead retailers throughout the whole neigh-borhood will be integrated into stand-alone buildings, helping to cultivate the atmosphere of an urban center, by add-ing further to the vitality of Übersee-quartier as a whole. Contrasting open spaces frame a dense mix of uses: invit-ing promenades beside the water, gener-ously proportioned boulevards, squares and terraces but also sheltered areas – for visitors as well as residents.
Überseeboulevard is the focus: like a meandering river, it runs from the Speicherstadt through to the River Elbe, interspersed by a variety of urban spaces formed by curving paths and façades. The contrasts are exciting: on the one hand the quarter seems all of a piece, but every step of the way provides surprising new perspectives.
Further to the south, Überseeboule-vard leads to the area’s outstanding attractions – in more ways than one – consisting of the Waterfront Towers (34/13), Cruise Terminal (34/14) and
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as the accelerated, separate develop-ment of the Cruise Terminal. The objec-tive of developing a qualitaobjec-tively upmarket use concept for southern Überseequartier matching high interna-tional requirements remains. Once acquired, such users will lend HafenCity their own distinctive and attractive character for the long term.
and cyclists will therefore have an unob-structed route through to Baakenhafen and to the Elbe embankment. In combi-nation with the “warft” basement of the Elbe Arcades, this is a special place right by the water. The Elbe Arcades are due to open 2013.
The historic bridge dating from 1931 and renamed Busanbrücke is the most significant east-west link for pedestrians and cyclists in central HafenCity. It con-nects western and central neighbor-hoods to eastern HafenCity. Like the surrounding promenades, it is paved with natural stone slabs in a stripe pat-tern with plenty of space for all users.
ELBE ARCADES FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY AND DESIgN
To the south of Busanbrücke, the Elbe Arcades, a meandering ensemble of buildings providing around 31,000 sqm gross floor area, are under construction. Designed by Bob Gysin + Partner BGP architects (Zurich), by mid-2013 this will provide a good 30,000 sqm space for a variety of uses. The buildings offer space on two levels – over the water and in the floodproof “warft” basement level – for cafés, shops and exhibitions. Unique in HafenCity so far is the city “loggia”, an arcade space around 10m deep and 8m high with good views to the west.
The two northern building sub-plots will provide a total 90 living spaces. Around 50 of the apartments are being built for the HeimatHafen project (43) by Garbe Group and Otto Wulff. Their flex-ible layouts offer a variety of uses, from multi-generation homes through living/ working lofts, duplex apartments to wheelchair-accessible units for seniors.
The other 40 living spaces (44a) are reserved for design-related uses.
Two outstanding creative organiza-tions also moving into the new building are: designxport – a Hamburg creative industry network – and iF Forum Design. In the central section (44b) designxport will occupy the basement and ground levels. This will provide a large public exhibition and event space including a design archive with library and a shop – which for the first time gives the Ham-burg design and creative industry its own central communication and repre-sentational platform events.
Moving into the southern section of the ensemble are the German head-quarters of the Greenpeace environ-mental organization and eco-power supplier Greenpeace Energy (45). Since the users have high demands of the building in terms of sustainability, it has
already been pre-certified with the HafenCity Ecolabel in gold. Architect Bob Gysin conferred with experts for energy-efficient construction right back at the competition stage.
Already occupied since 2011 is a new office building in the northern section designed by Winking, Froh Architekten (Hamburg/Berlin) for Hamburg’s central customs office, HafenCity Customs Office. Opposite it the existing building housing the company Gebr. Heinemann is augmenting its existing site with an additional building offering 7,000 sqm (construction starts about 2014).
UNIVERSITY WITH VIEWS OF THE ELBE
The HafenCity University (HCU) cam-pus is what really defines Elbtorquartier as a knowledge quarter. Construction of
The Elbe Arcades are taking shape on the eastern bank of Magdeburger Hafen harbor. Kaispeicher B, at the head of the harbor, has housed the International Maritime Museum Hamburg since 2008. HafenCity University (foreground right) is under construction adjacent to Baakenhafen harbor
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An innovative and sustainable “knowledge quarter” is emerging east of Magdeburger Hafen, home of HafenCity University, Greenpeace headquarters and designport hamburg
Elbtorquartier: HafenCity’s New Knowledge Quarter
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lively “knowledge quarter” is evolving between Magdeburger Hafen, Brook-torhafen and Am Lohsepark neighbor-hood. It owes its special atmosphere both to HafenCity University with its 2,000 students and to other pioneering projects.The urban planning conception for Elb-torquartier picks up on a variety of typol-ogies. While buildings of up to 70m will be erected in the south, an elongated block structure approximately 170m long to the east ties into the existing built structure along Hongkongstrasse, which is also replicated in Magdeburger Hafen.
IMPRESSIVE BRIDgE LINkS WEST AND EAST
Pedestrians can take a path leading from the Speicherstadt across Leonbrücke bridge directly into the shopping mall in the listed Kaispeicher B building (40). This is the oldest structure in HafenCity, dat-ing back to 1879; it forms the distinctive northern entrée to the area. Since sum-mer 2008 it has housed the International Maritime Museum Hamburg.
Both Leonbrücke bridge (architect: Dietmar Feichtinger; engineers: WTM Engineers) and the converted
Kaispei-cher B warehouse (MRLV Marcovic Ronai Voss architects) won Hamburg Architec-ture of the Year awards in 2007 from the Hamburg association of architects and engineers. As the developer of the bridge, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH shared the award.
Continuing through the museum’s shopping arcade, visitors arrive on Muse-umsplatz, where a new harbor motor launch landing stage was inaugurated in summer 2012. The adjoining pier, 280m long and 10m wide, leading along Mag-deburger Hafen, will eventually pass beneath Baakenbrücke bridge. Walkers
An unusually ecologically sustainable “knowledge quarter” is taking shape between Magdeburger Hafen in the west, Brook-torhafen to the north and Lohsepark to the east
A new launch landing stage in front of the International Maritime Museum and the 280m pier along the water’s edge in front of the Elbe Arcades are part of the new design of Magdeburger Hafen
