David Chipperfield Architects is set to build a 230-metre-high skyscraper on the River Elbe in Hamburg, expected to become the city's tallest building. Named Elbtower, the competition-winning design ...

From The Netherlands to Germany. A few months after the inauguration of the Drents Museum in Assen, the Erick van Egeraat‘s studio finalized in Hamburg a project that with the museum shares the ...

A stunning architectural marvel often compared to Sydney's opera house, the Elbphilharmonie is a concert hall and performance space designed by the Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Swiss ...

Hamburg’s HafenCity is one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in the world. Sally McGrane tagged along on a walking tour looking at the new architecture on the Elbe. On a recent sunny evening ...

Carefully weaving together nature and civic significance, the striking mixed-use development has three core design principles. At the base level, where the project interacts with the public realm, a ...

Once an imposing Nazi-era bunker, Hamburg’s Flakturm IV has been reimagined with gardens, terraces and a soaring staircase. Designer Mathias Müller-Using’s vision turned a concrete relic into a ...

The developer of a luxury urban quarter in Hamburg has agreed to remove a sign designed "as a tribute to the 20s" after critics compared it to concentration-camp signage. The typographic entry sign, ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Venice and Istanbul, maritime superpowers in their day, are best approached by sea. The same is true ...

Hamburg's Hafencity, or "harbor city," is transforming once-bustling but now derelict docks into the northern German metropolis's latest upscale neighborhood. The icing on the cake is a proposed new ...

As we've previously reported, the use of wood as a building material for larger structures is gaining steam throughout the construction industry. In honor of this year's IBA Hamburg architecture ...