A “city” is being created in HafenCity, in the real sense of the word: as well as

workplaces, shops, open spaces, cultural and tourist attractions, it is HafenCity as a place to live that is taking a focal role – 12,000 people will be living in Hafen-City in 2025. The sheer range of different uses makes special demands on social development of the new district. Recon-ciling the needs and expectations of the individual parties concerned has already proven successful in western HafenCity. Katharinenschule primary and the after-school care facilities linked to it form the nucleus of a social infrastructure and also the basis of a network; various other clubs and initiatives have also been founded.

But this process – the establishment of neighborhood networks and of formal and informal connections – is anything but complete. During the early phase of urban development, many residents were already intensely involved; now their involvement continues within per-manent structures. One important “foundation stone” was the establish-ment of Netzwerk HafenCity e.V. in fall 2009: it is available to all occupants of the new city district as a forum for dis-cussion and cooperation.

The innovative living concepts made possible in HafenCity will maintain their appeal to various groups of users in fu-

ture: on Shanghaiallee a musicians’ house, with practice rooms integrated into apartments, is being developed, while for designers, artists or craftspeo-ple, a residential and commercial build-ing offering apartments combined with shops will be available. HafenCity’s fi rst subsidized homes and student accom-modation are also planned in this street – which will widen the residential struc-ture even more.

It is exactly this chance to bring togeth-er the most varied groups of people that makes HafenCity what it is – and this ap-plies particularly to its central “heart” on either side of Magdeburger Hafen. The two neighborhoods taking shape here, Überseequartier and Elbtorquartier, will both be highly mixed and their develop-ment is coming on fast. The fi rst buildings in northern Überseequartier will be opened in summer 2010. At the same time, work will begin on the southern part of the neighborhood and also on building HafenCity University in Elbtor-quartier.

Construction of a special ensemble of buildings will also start in spring: their future occupants will include designport hamburg and the public design center designxport, as well as the Greenpeace Deutschland headquarters. Greenpeace and designport are preparing to cooper-ate closely.

Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg,

Chief Executive Offi cer HafenCity Hamburg GmbH

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Editorial

HafenCity is developing apace both so-cially and spatially – and at high speed. This is not only the case in terms of real-ization, but also applies to planning is-sues that are still outstanding, of which the most important is the revision of the Masterplan for eastern HafenCity. Once it is fi nalized in the coming months, it will form the conceptual foundation for the construction of neighborhoods to the east of Lohsepark such as Baaken-hafen from 2011, signifying yet another huge step forward for HafenCity.

Sincerely yours,HafenCity Hamburg GmbH

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KEY DATA ON HAFENCITY

- Total size: 157 hectares- Land: 123 hectares- more than 2.0 million m2 gross fl oor area- 5,500 homes for 12,000 people - Business premises with capacity for more than 40,000 jobs - Expansion of Hamburg’s city center by 40% - Currently 67 projects planned, under construction or already completed- Distance to Town Hall: 800 meters- Distance to Main Railway Station: 1,100 meters- Transport infrastructure: effi cient road network with connections to city center and freeway; under construction: new U4 subway line with two stops (operating from fall 2012)

- Ten kilometers of quayside promenades- Public space at the water’s edge:

Magellan Terraces (completed June 2005): 4,700 m2 Marco Polo Terraces (completed September 2007): 6,400 m2 Vasco da Gama Plaza (completed September 2007): 2,700 m2

- Cultural facilities: Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall (to be completed 2012) International Maritime Museum (opened summer 2008) Science Center with Science Theater (planned)

- Educational facilities: primary school with daycare facility for children and gym (operating since summer 2009) HCU HafenCity University (to be completed 2012)

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A new part of town is growing: HafenCity – currently Europe’s largest inner-city development project – is a blueprint for European city-center development at the water’s edge

The HafenCity Project

The city of Hamburg is setting new standards in developing a whole new

district – at least in Europe. On an area of 157 hectares, a lively new inner-city space is being created to accommodate a mix of office and residential uses, retail, restau-rants and bars, as well as cultural and lei-sure facilities. What sets it apart from similar urban development projects are the area’s central inner-city location and the expectations of quality reflected, for instance, in its fine-grained mix of uses, its lively atmosphere and innovative de-velopment process. Also outstanding are the high quality of its architecture and open space design.

The intensive reciprocal interaction between land and water can be regarded as unique, for HafenCity will not be sur-rounded by dikes, nor cut off from the water. With the exception of the quays and promenades, the total area, i.e. streets, parks and development sites will be raised to 7.5 to 8 meters above sea level. This creates a new, characteristic topography, also maintaining access to the water and emphasizing its typical port atmosphere.

OBJECTIVES

The purpose of HafenCity’s development is complex: back in 2000, the Masterplan had already formulated the objective to use the old port and industrial area by the River Elbe “for economic, social, cultural and urban ecological development”.

Within about 20 years HafenCity will expand the area of today’s city center by 40 percent. The effects of its creation will therefore impact not only on the whole Hanseatic City of Hamburg and its nearly 1.8 million inhabitants, but also on the 4.3 million residents of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. This strengthens Hamburg’s hand in compe-tition with other major European cities.

The task is a comprehensive one: to de-fine a new city sector in both planning and architectural terms. In total, more than 2.0 million m2 of gross floor area (GFA) will be built, providing 5,500 homes for 12,000 residents, business premises offering in excess of 40,000 job opportunities, plus retail and leisure facilities, restaurants and bars, cultural amenities, parks, plazas and prome-nades.

Thus a completely new and futuristic addition to the city center with its own stylistic vocabulary is gradually emerging. The reinterpretation of the place is oriented toward the established city center, its milieu informed by the old Speicherstadt warehouses and historic port structures, as well as a few conser-ved buildings. HafenCity carries forward Hamburg’s identity as a maritime city; at the same time, it is the epitome of European city development in the 21st century. Its innovative planning and im-plementation methods combine incen-tives for private investors with the city’s expectations of quality.

A coexistence of being and becoming: in western HafenCity the first completed neighborhood, Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai, along with many open spaces on the waterfront, is already a lively ensemble where everyday life bustles in an urban, yet maritime atmosphere.

Still under construction is the Elbphilharmonie and forecourt – as well as a series of other projects in central HafenCity

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southern part will commence in summer 2010. First the shell construction for Über-seequartier subway station needed to be completed before the line starts operating in fall 2012. Überseequartier itself will be finished in its entirety by 2013/14.

And the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, conceptualized by architectural firm Her-zog & de Meuron, continues to grow sky-wards on top of historic Kaispeicher A; by New Year 2009/10 it had reached a height of 65m. Hamburg’s new cultural beacon, with its two concert auditoriums, five-star hotel and approx. 47 residences, will be opened in 2012.

So it is clear that HafenCity long since left the project planning stage for thephase of tangible results: the east is still primarily in the planning phase; the center is a huge construction site; but the west is already a lively, urban environment.

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

For Hamburg, HafenCity is not merely a major real estate project in which indi-vidual projects must be completed as quickly and efficiently as possible – urban quality is supposed to be created. This is why HafenCity Hamburg GmbH pulls the strings, overseeing all activi-ties as a public manager of develop-ment, property owner and developer of infrastructure (except the subway). Zoning plan and building permit pro-cesses are pooled in a special task force in the Ministry of Urban Development and Environment. Since October 1, 2006, HafenCity has had so-called priority area status, which means that all zoning plans, because of their importance, will be debated by all political parties in Hamburg’s City Parliament, in the Com-mission for Urban Development, set up for this purpose.

However, the aim is also to set inter-

Am Sandtorkai / Dalmannkai

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STATUS OF DEVELOPMENT

HafenCity is being developed from west to east and from north to south. The area currently under construction, including any completed sections, now extends 1.1 km in length, from the Elbphilharmo-nie Concert Hall at the tip of Dalmannkai in the west to the Spiegel group building at Ericusspitze. In breadth, HafenCity begins at the Speicherstadt and runs down to the banks of the Elbe. Almost half of the construction volume foreseen in the Masterplan is completed, under construction, or secured by property sales and binding building contracts. The basis for development of eastern HafenCity will be a reworked version of the Master-plan elements decided in 2000.

In March 2010, roughly 1,500 people are living in the new neighborhoods and about 6,000 people work here; the numbers streaming into the district rise

daily. In 2009, the urban ensemble Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai was the first neighborhood to be completed: mean-while social networks have emerged, ground-floor cafés, restaurants, bars and shops have opened. Residents, local wor-kers and visitors enjoy the variety of open spaces.

In 2011 construction of buildings in next-door Am Sandtorpark/Grasbrook quarter will be all but finished. A primary school offering all-day supervision opened in 2009. Several office buildings were ready and residential buildings will follow. The newest – and biggest – office use in Hafen-City has been Germanischer Lloyd since spring 2010, when its 1,600 staff took pos-session of their new head office in Brook-torkai/Ericus. In early 2011 they will get a neighbor, when Spiegel publishing group takes over its new main office building.

The first building ensemble on Strand-kai was handed over in 2009: it consists

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of Unilever’s headquarters for German-speaking countries (1,100 employees) and the Marco Polo residential tower (58 units). Next to them, the first open spaces directly bordering the River Elbe are already in use.

The development of Elbtorquartier neighborhood is also under way. The International Maritime Museum Ham-burg in historic Kaispeicher B opened its doors in 2008 and construction of the new HafenCity University (HCU) begins in July 2010. Überseequartier quarter’s distinctive counterpart, consisting of the new Greenpeace headquarters, the design center designport hamburg, as well as a residential building, has been a building site since the beginning of 2010. All projects in the quarter, except for one site, will be completed by 2012.

The biggest city-center building site is the 7.9 hectare area that will be Übersee-quartier. The northern section will be realized by fall 2011, while work on the

national standards for conceptual and architectural quality. Therefore it is im-portant not only to attract powerful and financially strong investors, but also to find developers willing to cooperate in setting quality standards and in trea-ding innovative paths.

Tenders are invited for properties sche-duled for residential use; the competition then decides. In most cases, this does not necessarily mean that the highest bidder is successful – the offer price is usually fixed before the start of the tender process. Rather, the crucial factor for awarding the contract is the quality of the use concepts submitted – and fulfillment of the de-clared objective of creating a fine-grained mix of uses. This should not only address the varied interests of end-users; it is in-tended primarily to lay the foundations for a versatile city – a city that, thanks to its diversity, will be able to adjust to potential changing requirements in future.

Sites for office buildings are not, on the whole, processed this way. Compa-nies planning to use 50 to 70 per cent of the building or site for their purposes must apply to HafenCity Hamburg GmbH. After assessment by the Ham-burg Business Development Corporati-on (HWF) they have the opportunity to negotiate for a suitable piece of land.

Whatever the type of land use, one thing applies – all contracts offered by HafenCity Hamburg GmbH have to be ra-tified by the Land Division Commission (KfB) responsible for the sale of city land. After its decision, the exclusive option period follows. The investor is granted exclusivity for a planning period. It needs to proceed with an architectural competi-tion, carry out site surveys, determine additional site costs and apply for a buil-ding permit. Throughout this process,HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, the authori-ties and the buyer are in constant dialog.

The specific conditions valid for a parti-cular piece of land and the requirements of the building concept are also re-flected in the negotiations for a sales contract between the developer and HafenCity.

The advantage for the developer is that financing of the purchase price is delayed until after the process is concluded; until then it has adequate time to hone the qua-lity of its product, secure finance and per-haps acquire additional users. At the same time the city retains its ability to intervene during the development process, thus en-suring that the originally submitted use concepts and time schedules will be ad-hered to, or to ensure the building’s quality by means of architectural competitions and building permits. Well-defined stages during the coordination phase ensure a speedy and efficient process.

Exclusive option period regulations are a safety net and process tool for Ham-burg and HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, en-suring the best quality of architecture, end use and time scales. If a developer fails in its obligations, the piece of land can be easily repossessed. Cooperation is encouraged and free rider strategies are avoided. After all, all players benefit from the exclusive option period procedure: both the city and the developers mini-mize their risk, costs and delays – and maintain quality.

A place to spend time in: the quality of the many squares, promenades and open-air steps on the waterfront makes them attractive to Hamburgers and visitors alike. A schoolyard for Katharinenschule primary has been built on the roof

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The urban ensemble at Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai was the fi rst HafenCity quarter to be completed – in spring 2009. Much of its charm stems from the mingling of everyday neighborhood life with a completely new form of urban living on the waterfront. Residential, work and leisure uses are closely enmeshed

Fine-grained and alive: HafenCity’s fi rst neighborhood

No city-center quarter has ever been built as quickly in Hamburg: work on

Sandtorkai only began in spring 2003, and the final buildings in Dalmannkai were completed by spring 2009. Within the space of six years, therefore, all the buildings, as well as urban spaces of a kind unparalleled anywhere in Hamburg so far, were realized. For the first time, all the important development principles behind HafenCity were brought into play in a larger urban ensemble.

Sandtorhafen is the neighborhood’s

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core, its harbor basin lined with the pon-toons of the Traditional Ship Harbor. One of the functions of this floating setting, operated by the Hamburg Maritim trust, is as a permanent mooring for 20 to 30 seaworthy vessels. To the north, Sand-torkai stands out between the listed Speicherstadt and Sandtorhafen harbor, its buildings protruding over the water so that the promenade can run beneath. South of the historic ships, Dalmannkai promontory extends between the Sand-torhafen and Grasbrookhafen harbors.

Open public urban structures abound throughout the quarter. Instead of for-ming a solid barrier, the eight apartment and office blocks on Sandtorkai and the 15 building ensembles on Dalmannkai allow glimpses through to the city cen-ter, as well as in the other direction, to the River Elbe. The many plazas and pro-menades in the neighborhood function as unifying planning elements.

URBAN SPACES WITHIN A NEW TOPOGRAPHY

As is the case throughout HafenCity, the urban spaces of Am Sandtorkai/Dal-mannkai quarter form a completely new emergent urban topography: all the buil-dings and the roads are built on artifi cial-ly raised, fl ood-protected bases, around 8 meters above sea level. This meant that erecting a new dike around the district, outside the main line of Hamburg dikes, was unnecessary; the area’s manifold wa-terside qualities could be maintained and excitingly exploited.

The embankment promenades, howe-ver, remain at 4 to 5.5 meters above sea level. Because of their closeness to the wa-ter, they have already become popular routes for a stroll, as well as for cyclists. The new topography maximizes the neighborhood’s public character: its urban spaces can be experienced at two levels – street level and the water’s edge. The dif-ference in heights is particularly noticea-ble in the north of Sandtorkai, in other words at its interface with the Speicher-stadt, which remains at its historic level.

On the Magellan and Marco Polo Terraces, the largest squares in the locality and in the whole of HafenCity, the new topography has inspired creative interpretation.

Attractive urban spaces have been created on both sides of Sandtorhafen. In the middle

of the harbor basin is the fl oating plaza of the Traditional Ship Harbor

The Traditional Ship Harbor at Sandtorhafen harbor is the centerpiece

of the Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai ensemble. A pleasure craft marina

will occupy the still unconverted basin of Grasbrookhafen to the south.

Two plazas at the head of the two harbor basins – the Magellan and

Marco Polo Terraces – as well as promenades along Am Sandtorkai/

Dalmannkai, act as unifying elements in the urban scheme

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The terraces drop in a series of steps from the level of the fl ood-protected elevation to promenade level. Because of its simila-rity to an amphitheater, the 4,700 m2 ur-ban landscape of the Magellan Terraces is often used as the backdrop for larger out-door events. For their part, the 6,400 m2 Marco Polo Terraces appear softer and greener. Grass islands and wooden decking invite passers by to take a break; the trees spread shade. The smaller Vasco da Gama plaza, the third square, com-pletes the ensemble; this neighborhood square even boasts a basketball court.

The pontoons of the Traditional Ship Harbor provide a third level of urban perception which rises and falls with the tide. Since the water level of the River Elbe varies twice daily by more than three meters, depending on the ebb and fl ow of the tide, perception of the quarter is con-stantly changing. The relationship here between water level, quay walls and edges, pontoons, watercraft and buil-dings is continuously shifting.

Almost all other plazas and prome-nades in this neighborhood – and the whole western end of HafenCity – were planned by EMBT of Barcelona. Associa-tions were created, for instance, through the repeated use of lighting sources, materials and uniform landscaping of the walls of building plinths. The base-ments and promenade on Sandtorkai, however, were designed by BHF Land-schaftsarchitekten.

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Yet another public level – the fourth – is emerging, independent of overall open space planning, in the shape of the Elb-philharmonie Concert Hall on Dalmann-kai point: at a height of 37 meters its pla-za, accessible to the public, has the most spectacular views over the surroundings and the city.

MINGLING OF URBAN LIVING AND NEIGHBORHOOD LIFE

The dense mix of different uses in the neighborhood is representative of the whole district – as well as its urban topo-graphy. It sets the scene for the realiza-tion of very diverse lifestyles: people from different social and cultural back-grounds live and work here as immediate neighbors, getting involved in their new surroundings together and building end-less networks.

The cityscape itself refl ects the variety of the quarter: on Dalmannkai alone, 15 building ensembles were realized by 27 developers and 26 fi rms of architects. While staying true to urban planning re-quirements such as height restrictions, each building was created with its own signature.

The users and use concepts in the urban ensemble are as disparate as its architec-ture. The population structure, for exam-ple, reveals enormous variety. Am Sand-torkai/Dalmannkai quarter is home to 1,500 people, with young working singles

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Closeness to the water on the promenade on Dalmannkai’s southern edge makes it a magnet for a stroll. Even the courtyards of building

ensembles here open out towards the waters of Grasbrookhafen harbor and the River Elbe

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Architecture and public urban spaces in the new neighborhood are as varied as the newly created uses in it.

Almost all ground fl oors are set aside for public amenities, such as retail or hospitality outlets

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and families living side by side with “empty nesters” (couples whose children have left home) and seniors. This socially differentiated structure is also the result of a selective tendering and award proce-dure: sites for housing were not sold to the highest bidder. Instead, potential developers were invited to present a con-cept for uses of buildings; it was the qua-lity of this concept that then determined the sale at pre-agreed fi xed prices.

This is why each of the projects on Dal-mannkai has a unique character, while together they form a lively and varied neighborhood. The result is an urban ensemble in which a wide spectrum of projects have been realized: both rentals and condominiums are available; many apartments are fi nancially within reach of mid-income-earners, while some are in the luxury segment. Reasonably priced living accommodation was realized through building cooperatives and three

joint building ventures. Overall, such dif-ferentiated housing typologies can meet the needs of a range of different budgets.

As well as the residents, the employees of its almost 200 businesses also infl u-ence the quarter’s atmosphere. Most of the local businesses offer creative and modern services and – while construction continues – building services. Also stron-gly represented here are media and logi-stics businesses, followed by commerce, fi nancial services, IT services and ma-nagement consultants. Most of the com-panies employ up to 50 people.

HafenCity’s fi rst completed neighbor-hood is a place where residents, offi ce workers and visitors – from Hamburg, the rest of Germany or all over the world – continually come into social contact with each other. Apart from urban open spaces, places where they run into each other include the ground-fl oor levels of most buildings on Dalmannkai. All of this

Vasco da Gama square, on the elevated mound of Dalmannkai, has turned into a real community square; a fl ight of steps

links it with the lower-level Dalmannkai promenade with its waterfront atmosphere

Holiday atmosphere on Dalmannkai promenade: many eateries have

outside terraces with views of Grasbrookhafen; residents and visitors

use the Dalmannkai steps to pause and watch the ships go by

level, with four-meter-high ceilings, was planned for use by services, shops and ea-teries. Meanwhile a lively community of shops, bistros, cafés, restaurants, galle-ries and bars has evolved in 5,600 m2 of fl oor space.

Some concepts have picked up on the special characteristics of this former port area and transformed them into business ideas. Take Meßmer Momen-tum, for example, which is devoted to the world of tea, housing a tea lounge and shop, as well as a museum of tea.

Important impetus for the quarter is ex-pected to come from the Elbphilharmonie

Concert Hall. Its successful integration into the surroundings can already be re-garded as achieved: the concert hall will be completed in 2012 and is the only building on Dalmannkai still under construction. Buildings of such outstan-ding importance elsewhere often tend to take shape in isolated areas, some-times separated from city centers. Hamburg’s new symbol, however, is being integrated into a densely built urban ensemble; nevertheless its posi-tion, on a point jutting out into the River Elbe, is extremely prominent – as befits its special significance.

The principle of dense mix of uses natu-rally also presents various challenges. Living as they do in the midst of a new urban lifestyle concept, residents needed protected local spaces to be made availa-ble. The solutions found are as innovative as they are exemplary. Thus the building ensembles on southern Dalmannkai are grouped around internal courtyards. The courtyards open up towards the south –

towards Grasbrook harbor and the River Elbe – thus allowing unobstructed views over the water. At the same time, resi-dents enjoy sheltered private spaces, since the difference in height from the lower-lying promenade means they are shielded from view. Other private spaces, for in-stance, were created in the form of roof terraces – the new neighborhood allows the private and public to exist side by side.

The facilities of the Katharinenschule school in the next-door quarter, Am Sandtorpark, are in great demand from clubs and initiatives from all over Hafen-City. A strong social infrastructure has developed here: under the same roof as the primary school, day-care and after-school supervision have moved in. Many residents are already involved in develo-ping neighborhood or social structures in the newly emerging district. For example, they have set up a sports and an art club, created a play house on the nearby Trea-sure Island playground and taken over

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running it, organized neighborhood mee-ting places and fl ea markets, as well as putting together various local media. In November, Netwerk HafenCity e.V. was constituted. The idea is for it to act as an interface for the mass of available social potential in the new part of town. As well as many residents, its founding members also include local initiatives, institutions and businesses (see p 36 ff.). So it’s clear that the coexistence of urban lifestyle and neighborhood here is no contra-diction – instead it is a defi nite sign of quality. From the end of 2010, the neigh-borhood will also be accessible by water via a new jetty at the Elbphilharmonie.

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their individual requirements from an early stage. Every household will have a share of garden in the green inner cour-tyard.

Am Sandtorpark will boast international flair. North of Sandtorpark, most of the companies moving into the Hamburg-America-Center, with its 8,700 m2 of gross floor area (GFA), are either from the US or have close links to it. Amerikazen-trum Hamburg e.V. has already moved in and offers a program of cultural events. On the ground floor of the building desi-gned by star US architect and Pritzker prizewinner Richard Meier (developer DS Bauconcept), a branch of HypoVereins-bank has opened.

The International Coffee Plaza (27) next door, an ensemble of three buildings that includes a striking 13-story tower, was also conceived by Richard Meier. It was developed by the Neumann family and a joint venture between DS-Baucon-cept and the Neumann group. In the new building complex the Neumann group, one of the world’s leading green coffee

merchants, will be part of a cluster of coffee businesses sharing 16,900 m2 GFA. Even the 1,200 m2 of space reserved for retail, eating and drinking will continue the coffee-related theme, with busi-nesses moving into the premises in the first half of 2010.

Space for growing companies will be available in two further office buildings: SKAI (25), with 16,000 m2 GFA , and ready to move into, was designed by the Ham-burg firm of Böge Lindner architects. Already open on the ground floor is the Espression by Lavazza coffee bar. During the post-completion phase, the space was used for art exhibitions (investor: DWI Grundbesitz). For smaller companies, a Commercial Center comprising 14,600 m2 GFA is under construction to the south-west of Sandtorpark (investors: DC Com-mercial and Wölbern Invest AG). On com-pletion in early 2011, the building – which has been awarded preliminary gold Hafen-City Ecolabel certification – will be partial-ly used by Wölbern Invest AG (30), with the remainder divided into individually

rented smaller units of 200 to 400 m2. High-end shops, restaurants and bars are planned for the ground floor space.

All projects should be completed by ear-ly 2011. The area of Sandtorpark itself is still being used for construction site pur-poses, which means that it will be spring 2011 before the green area is accessible.

To be exact, development of the quar-ter really began seven years ago because two older buildings at Grosser Grasbrook also belong to it. Software company SAP moved into its new offices and training center (32) in 2003, while logistics giant Kühne + Nagel followed suit in 2006 , ta-king possession of its German head office and international IT headquarters (31). Initially, these HafenCity pioneers occu-pied a large derelict site in isolation – now they are at the heart of a lively, urbane city quarter. Construction of the last buil-ding in the neighborhood, probably a re-sidential building, to be sited opposite Grasbrookpark to the south, can begin from 2013, after the building works for the new U4 subway are cleared away.

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With a green park at its heart, the new Am Sandtorpark/Grasbrook neighborhood offers ideal conditions for residents, pupils at its new primary school – and growing companies

Green and Metropolitan at the Same Time

The whole of HafenCity is characterized by a mix of uses, but this is nowhere

more evident than between Sandtorha-fen harbor and the Überseequartier neighborhood. Sandtorpark – a green open space to be laid out later with mounds and play areas – is the key urban element around which almost all the buil-dings cluster. This is part of public open space planning for western HafenCity and was designed – along with all open spaces here – by architects EMBT of Bar-celona. Materials and features used for the Magellan Terraces are also found in the open spaces around Sandtorpark and its surrounding buildings, a uniting theme drawing together the multiplicity of urban land uses prevalent throughout HafenCity.

Am Sandtorpark is a part of HafenCity that is growing much faster than original-ly planned. The relocation of NKG Kala Hamburg (formerly Kaffee-Lagerei N.H.L. Hinsch & Cons.) freed up additional cen-tral sites for development back in 2006 – in other words, some 15 years ahead of the Masterplan schedule. Now all

projects in this neighborhood are well un-der way – the first of them were handed over in 2009.

HafenCity’s Katharinenschule school (29) constitutes an important social hub in HafenCity. Classes in the building star-ted in summer 2009. The primary school will eventually have three parallel classes and offer day-long supervision for as many as 450 children, including a day-care center for the smallest, right through to evening, if needed. The sport hall, which is part of the building, is inten-sively used after school as well, e.g. by Störtebeker sport club or sports groups from surrounding local companies, such as Pantaenius and NYK Line. In addition, the building, designed by architects Spengler & Wiescholek, houses 30apartments. This was a public-private partnership with builder Otto Wulff Bau-unternehmung GmbH.

Taking shape directly adjacent to Katha-rinenschule school (28) are construction projects developed by Hofquartier (68 homes built by DS-Bauconcept/Wernst) and Hafenliebe (55 homes realized by

Stadt Land Fluss), providing generous living space. The Hafenliebe joint buil-ding venture, in particular, attaches gre-at importance to family-oriented living: early in 2011 the residents of the four buil-dings, including 40 children, will start moving in. Members of the joint venture were able to influence planning with

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The new neighborhood is growing on the site of the former coffee roasting plant. Residential and commercial buildings are being built around

Sandtorpark; the primary school, with its sport hall, after-school supervision and day-care center, was opened in summer 2009

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Sandtorpark will take shape from March 2010,

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Commercial Center has space for small and

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The school building has become a social hub for the whole district. The roof-top schoolyard has been attractively laid out and other

play areas are available in front of the Katharinenschule school and day care center

City-center living becomes reality at Sandtorpark:

DS-Bauconcept’s HofQuartier development is a

family-friendly residential concept

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house businesses with links to the US; the

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The mainly clinker-brick façades of Brooktorkai buildings bear an obvious similarity to the historic Speicherstadt, with its important

infl uence on the local setting, though its three towers set self-confi dent new accents of their own. Spiegel group’s new HQ is already taking shape

providing an additional route from the promenade to St. Annen square. By the end of 2010 the constellation of Kaispeicher B, Überseequartier and the Germanischer Lloyd building will form a spectacular entry to cen-tral HafenCity, framed by the Speicherstadt, and a splendid area of space.

Construction of a new building for the Spiegel publishing group has been under way at Ericusspitze at the eastern end of the neighborhood since 2008. The work is being carried out by Robert Vogel GmbH & Co. KG and the ABG group of companies which are also working on Ericus Contor, a

Brooktorkai’s meandering structure

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second building with additional uses. In April 2011, the company will bring together its Hamburg editorial offices (including those of Der Spiegel, Spiegel TV, Spiegel Online and Manager Magazin) here in about 30,000 m2 GFA. Henning Larsen Architects of Copenhagen created the groundbreaking design for both the publi-shing house and the neighboring Ericus Contor office building (20,000 m2 GFA). Its associations with the nearby Speicher-stadt and Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall qualify it for its role as the central gateway to HafenCity as an area of outstanding urban architectural significance.

The Spiegel Group’s new building – which has a preliminary gold HafenCity Ecolabel – is of outstanding ecological quality. This is achieved through, for example, extremely low overall primary energy requirements of less than 100 kWh per square meter per year, triple glazing, and geothermal and photovoltaic systems. In addition, the buil-ding convinces through its extremely public character: the space between both buildings and parts of the ground floor are accessible to the public.

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architect Dietmar Feichtinger. It carries the newly laid out Shanghaiallee road link, connecting the two banks of Brooktor-hafen harbor at an elevation safe from high water. As wide as it is long, Shanghai-brücke bridge offers broad pedestrian and cycle paths; the bridge’s structure is com-pletely hidden beneath the road. The Hamburg association of architects and en-gineers (AIV) chose Shanghaibrücke as one of three Hamburg Buildings of the Year in 2006.

A public promenade along Brooktor-hafen to Ericusspitze has been taking shape since the beginning of 2010 to desi-gns by WES & Partner Landschaftsarchi-tekten. Once building works are finished in fall 2010, another, new pedestrian bridge over St. Annen canal will be added,

The outstanding feature of Brooktorkai is the meandering structure of its architec-ture, punctuated by three nine-floor tower blocks with expansive views over the Spei-cherstadt and Brooktorhafen. The choice of materials for the building ensemble refe-rences the red-brick of the Speicherstadt, while the three tower blocks stand out due to their natural stone, green cast glass and perforated copper panels. The Hamburg partnership gmp Gerkan, Marg und Partner won the urban design competition for Brooktorkai (excluding Ericusspitze), while the architectural competitions were deci-ded in favour of gmp and Jan Störmer Archi-tekten of Hamburg, and the Italian office of Antonio Citterio and Partners.

A further architectural gem in Brooktor-kai is Shanghaibrücke bridge designed by

Brooktorkai/Ericus neighborhood holds a double trump: its location on the city-center waterfront and the Speicherstadt next door – and all just a few minutes’ walk from Hamburg’s Central Station. The headquarter buildings of Germanischer Lloyd and the Spiegel group also add a real touch of class

Perfectly Located: Offices and Hotels Right next to Speicherstadt

BROOKTORKAI / ERICUS

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The 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 Holländischbrook-fleet canal. To the south of this area, the distinctive Kaispeicher B building houses the International Maritime Museum Ham-burg, which opened in June 2008.

The western part of Brooktorkai, compri-sing a total 52,000 m2 of gross floor area (GFA), was developed by Germanischer Lloyd and Quantum Immobilien AG. Germanischer Lloyd’s move into its new building – with around 1,600 employees – represents HafenCity’s largest single cor-porate relocation. A residential tower with 30 apartments with views of Lohsepark has also been built.

Top location: the meandering Brooktorkai ensemble of buildings, comprising 52,000 m2 gross fl oor area, now stands between the historic Speicherstadt,

Brooktorhafen and the International Maritime Museum Hamburg. Oberbaumbrücke bridge next door is an important link with the existing city center

The Ericusspitze building ensemble at the

central entrance to HafenCity is an exciting

counterpoint to the Elbphilharmonie Concert

Hall at the western end. A plaza and other

generous open spaces are being developed

between the two buildings

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seven stories with seven towers rising as high as 55 meters� Total gross floor area of approxi- mately 200,000 m2

� Development plan under way� Unilever Building and Marco Polo Tower to be completed by summer 2009/beginning 2010; more projects will follow from 2012

Strandkai’s first building ensemble, made up of the Marco Polo Tower (left) and the new Unilever head office (center),

is not far from the temporary cruise terminal

group Unilever moved its headquarters for German-speaking countries into the offi ce building (59) in summer 2009. The group’s 25,000 m2 GFA offers approximately 1,100 workplaces, as well as conference rooms and a canteen for employees. In July 2009, the Unilever building won the BEX award for particularly sustainable, innova-tive and effi cient architecture. Then, in No-vember 2009, it was named World’s Best Building at the World Architecture Awards in Barcelona. The Marco Polo Tower had al-ready been awarded the European Property Award in the Best Building Project category. The fi rst of the 58 exclusive residential units in the Marco Polo Tower (58) have already been handed over to their new owners.

Both buildings were realized by Hochtief Projektentwicklung GmbH. The fi rm of Behnisch Architekten from Stuttgart won the architectural competition. Their design is remarkable because of its organic yet sculptural form: this makes a landmark of the whole ensemble – the 55-meter high Marco Polo Tower, in particular, with its staggered stories, can be seen from afar.

At the heart of the offi ce building is an atrium, fl ooded with natural light. It branches out like a tree through all seven fl oors of the building. At ground fl oor level, a mall passageway accessible to the public runs through, connecting the Marco Polo Terraces to the newly landscaped water-front promenade on the banks of the Elbe. The mall includes an ice cream parlor, a shop and a wellness spa. Outside, tree-lined steps lead directly down to the river-bank promenade, which is already partly completed, giving a view of the Cruise Center and the port on the other side of the Elbe.

The Unilever building is also impressive because of its ecological sustainability cre-dentials; it has been awarded preliminary gold HafenCity Ecolabel certifi cation.

The neighborhood’s development will continue on the tip of the quay to the west from 2012/13 . Both building ensembles planned for that section will be put out to tender in early 2010. Two residential buil-dings are planned here, providing 25,400 and 31,000 m2 GFA respectively, with

public amenities on their ground fl oors. Completion will be 2013/14. Eastern Strandkai, now being used as a construc-tion site for the new U4 subway and tem-porary location of the cruise terminal, can be built on from 2014/15.

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STRANDKAI

Strandkai is surrounded by water and offers spectacular views and incredible locations for apartments and modern service indus-tries. The first buildings to be completed, the Unilever headquarters and the Marco Polo Tower, have already received accolades

Great Location: Residential and Office Space on the Waterfront

Strandkai quarter will be a conspicuous part of the southern view of the city in

future, visible from the bridges of the River Elbe. The basic structure of its hybrid peri-meter blocks is made up of six- to seven-story building ensembles into which will be integrated 15-story, 55-meter tall, tower tops and individual towers. These seven high-rises will then provide far-reaching views downstream along the River Elbe, to the south across the port, to the north and west over Grasbrook harbor, HafenCity, and the inner city.

The urban design competition was won by Hamburg partnership Büro Böge Lind-ner Architekten. There will be approxima-tely 200,000 m2 of gross fl oor area (GFA), distributed on ten building plots. The eas-tern end of the neighborhood, directly op-posite the Cruise Center, mainly comprises offi ce space for modern service industries No homes will be built directly on the waterfront because of proximity to the cruise terminal.

But residential units are being built at Grasbrookpark nearby. And the very exposed locations on the tip of the quay promontory will be reserved exclusively for housing. The ground fl oor areas are the only exception: here, as almost everywhere else in HafenCity, they are

earmarked for uses with public appeal.Otherwise than originally scheduled,

the development of Strandkai is already well under way. Construction of the fi rst group of buildings on Marco Polo Terraces (an offi ce building and a residential tower) is completed. Consumer goods

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Bridges, ramps and stairways provide myriad links within the sculpturally formed atrium that extends through the whole height of the Unilever headquarters building.

In front of the building, the fi rst open urban spaces beside the River Elbe – including a huge external fl ight of steps – have already been landscaped

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Construction has been going on in the north (upper right in marked area) since 2007; the fi rst buildings (to be

named by the Überseequartier consortium) will be fi nished by summer 2010. The only historic building to be

retained in the whole area is the listed former harbor master’s offi ce. With the shell of Überseequartier subway

station in place, development of the neighborhood’s southern section can begin in summer 2010

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A spiky crane forest and the massive shells of buildings mark the skyline of the core of Europe’s largest inner-city construction site. The northern section will be almost completed by summer 2010, the two last buildings will be fi nished in fall 2011

Überseequartier – a New City Icon Emerges

Central Überseequartier’s special fea-ture is its sophisticated mix of uses.

HafenCity’s so-called heart, which is about 7.9 hectares in size, will be home to around 1,000 people and workplace for up to 7,000 people; an additional 40,000 visitors are expected on a daily basis. Spe-cial points of attraction will be the Sci-ence Center and the cruise terminal, but the real focus will be the exciting retail and catering concepts to be found in its approx. 66,000 m2 of gross fl oor area (GFA).

Following a two-tier international com-petition that began in 2003, the Übersee-quartier site was sold in December 2005 to a Dutch-German investor consortium (consisting of ING Real Estate, SNS Pro-perty Finance and Groß + Partner Grund-stücksentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH). Internationally renowned architects, in-cluding the Dutchmen Rem Koolhaas and Erick van Egeraat, created an overall plan-ning concept for the area on the basis of an urban masterplan (Trojan + Trojan) Just two years later, in the fall of 2007, construction work was under way on northern Überseequartier.

In this area, residential units (classical housing as well as townhouses integrated into buildings and duplex apartments) and offi ce space are planned, as well as a wide variety of smaller-scale retail and restaurant concepts at ground fl oor level especially aimed at serving local needs and tourists. Nearby, the 25hours Hotel Company is opening a design hotel in Überseeallee with 170 rooms. In the southern section of the quarter, where construction begins summer 2010, com-mercial building typologies set the scene (there are no residences because of the nearby cruise terminal): upper fl oors offer offi ce space, and the lower two or three fl oors provide sites for shops, as well as bistros, cafés, restaurants and bars.

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ring river – from the Speicherstadt to the Elbe. Varying urban spaces are created by curving footpaths, façades and the local characteristics of the neighborhood. The width of the boulevard varies, opening out at times into a square. The boulevard’s cre-ator, architect Beth Galí and her staff at BB + GG arquitectes, are also responsible for all other urban spaces in Überseequartier and around Magdeburger Hafen harbor. The Catalan architect has selected colored concrete and natural stone as fl oor co-verings. On areas of Überseequartier where there are adjacent public water-front spaces, which are uniformly land-scaped, she plays with variable ground levels. Ramps, steps and terraces link diffe-rent levels, creating intimate urban spaces along the Elbe and Magdeburger Hafen in the otherwise bustling quarter.

Architectural designs for individual buil-dings are also impressive. For example, the only remaining brick building in this area, the listed former harbor master’s offi ce, will become a new nucleus for cui-sine in HafenCity, with a variety of mar-ket activities. Architect Bolles + Wilson is in charge of the conversion and expan-sion. One building on the site is already completed: in the InfoPavillon, the mo-dels and multimedia exhibits give a glimpse of the future of the soon-to-be buzzing quarter.

Further south, Überseeboulevard takes you to the area’s three most important points of attraction – in architectural terms also. The fascinating design for the Science Center was created by Rem Kool-haas (see page 35). Construction of the Cruise Center should begin at the end of 2011. With the Waterfront Towers comes a convincing concept for Überseequarter’s Elbe front: the two prominent stand-alone buildings unmistakably mark the southern limits of the urban ensemble,

framed by the Science Center and cruise terminal.

A topping-out ceremony has already taken place in the northern part of Über-seequartier. From summer 2010, approx. 300 apartments will be ready to move into and many shops will also be open; the remaining 60 apartments and the hotel will follow in 2011. In summer 2010, building work begins on the south of Überseequartier. By 2013/14 the majority of the area will have been developed.

By then the new U4 subway line will pro-vide a direct link to the existing city center – construction began in summer 2007. One of the U4 stations, designed by the Darmstadt fi rm of netzwerkarchitekten, will be inside Überseequartier. The trip to Jungfernstieg will take just three minutes.

Generous and exclusive open spaces between the individual buildings in Überseequartier invite people to wander. Myriad shops, bistros, cafés, bars and

restaurants directly integrated into the urban space will guarantee an exciting shopping experience under the open sky

Each and every building in Überseequartier sets

architectonic standards. The fi rst of the buildings

are almost fi nished

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34/4 Retail, restaurant, residential/nps tchoban voss GbR

34/5 Retail, restaurant, offices/Bolles + Wilson

34/6 Retail, offices, residential/EEA (Erick van Egeraat associated architects)

34/7 Retail, residential, hotel/Böge Lindner Architekten

34/8 Retail, restaurant, offices/Léon Wolhage Wernik

34/9 Retail, restaurant, offices/BDP

34/10 Retail, restaurant, offices/KSP Engel und Zimmermann/Ortner & Ortner

34/11 Retail, restaurant, offices/KSP Engel und Zimmermann/Allies and Morrison

34/12 Science Center with Science Theater/OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture)

34/13 Retail, restaurant, offices/EEA (Erick van Egeraat associated architects)

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A unique assortment of retail categories will be on offer: in addition to fl agship stores, brand boutiques and branches of international labels, so called innovation tenants are moving in, offering a type of retail format so far not seen in Hamburg or even in Germany. Businesses of this type are rare in prime city-center loca-tions as rents are generally too high. However, in Überseequartier they are being specifi cally promoted: the benefi ts of their appeal will then spill over to other retailers. Through HafenCity, therefore, the retail attractions of Hamburg’s exi-sting city center will be enhanced and expanded.

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The concept of an indoor shopping mall has been consciously avoided in Übersee-quartier. Instead, retailers will be integra-ted throughout a total 16 buildings – and thus also into the urban space. Shoppers should be able to appreciate the urbane atmosphere, and the feeling of the water-front nearby. Furthermore, the ecological advantage is also convincing: since shop-ping malls are indoors, they require air conditioning, generating above-average requirements for primary energy.

The urban development concept of Überseequartier is focused on Übersee-boulevard. The boulevard runs through the whole neighborhood like a meande-

The shell construction of the station was ready at the beginning of 2009; services are planned to begin in fall 2012. By the way, even pedestrians only need ten mi-nutes at the most to reach the heart of HafenCity from city hall or the inner Alster. Of course, the needs of motorists are also esed to: underground car garages throughout Überseequartier provide around 3,400 spaces – and simultaneously protection from fl oods.

A total of 286,000 m2 of gross floor area (GFA) will be completely deve-loped at Überseequartier by 2012/13� Residential: approx. 47,000 m2 GFA� Offices:

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and existing structures, while the U4 subway

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offi ce (46). They will be joined by HafenCity

University from summer 2010. Construction of

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ELBTORQUARTIER

An innovative “Knowledge Quarter” is emerging east of Magdeburger Hafen, featuring HafenCity University, Greenpeace headquarters, designport hamburg, and other creative users. Because so many of its buildings have such high ecological standards, this neighborhood will also become Hamburg’s fi rst model sustainability neighborhood. From 2010/12, it will also be HafenCity’s primary construction site

HafenCity’s New Knowledge Quarter

A lively and multifaceted quarter is taking shape between Magdeburger

Hafen harbor in the west, Brooktorhafen harbor in the north and the Am Lohsepark quarter in the east; it owes its special atmosphere not only to the 1,500 studen-ts at HafenCity University (HCU), but also to the employees and users of a multi-tude of other trend-setting projects. In addition, the influence of pulsating Über-

seequartier quarter to the west is sure to spill over into Elbtorquartier quarter.

The urban conception of the quarter picks up on a range of construction forms and structures. Buildings up to 70 meters high will be erected in the south, while a block structure approximately 170 meters long ties into existing built structure to the east, which is picked up again directly next to Magdeburger Hafen harbor.

You can reach the area on foot from the Speicherstadt crossing the new Museums-brücke bridge, where your path leads ini-tially through the listed Kaispeicher B building (40). This structure, the oldest in HafenCity, dating back to 1879, has created a distinctive northern entrance into the area and since summer 2008 has housed the International Maritime Museum Hamburg (see page 34). Both

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the Museum bridge (architect: Dietmar Feichtinger; engineers: WTM Engineers) and the converted Kaispeicher B (MRLV Marcovic Ronai Voss architects) won Hamburg Architecture of the Year awards in 2007 from the Hamburg Association of architects and engineers. HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, as the developer of the bridge, also shared the award.

From the mall leading through Kaispei-cher B you walk to the museum square created by Catalan architect Beth Galí and from there onto the promenade at Magdeburger Hafen harbor. Another warehouse building (41), dating from 1977/78 and standing adjacent to Kaispei-cher B, was extensively remodeled during the years 2007 and 2008 and con-verted into company headquarters for Hamburg merchants Gebrüder Heine-mann, based on a design by architect Ulrich Arndt.

Along the Magdeburger Hafen harbor promenade, another project amounting to 30,000 m2 of total gross floor area (GFA) got under way at the beginning of 2010. This meandering ensemble of buil-dings, for completion by 2011/12, incorpo-rating three different uses is the result of

a combined urban design and architectu-ral competition won by a design by Bob Gysin + Partner BGP Architekten from Zu-rich. The buildings will be accessible on two levels – both via the promenade at water level and the flood-protected ele-vation above – with generous space for public uses, in the shape of cafés, shops and galleries, for example. Unique to Hamburg so far is the so-called city loggia, an arcade space, ten meters deep and eight high, with extensive water views.

In the northern part of the building there will also be almost 100 residential units; in the central part, approx. 10,000 m2 GFA is set aside specifically for design-related uses. For this purpose, public de-sign center designxport will occupy both the basement and ground floor. With it, exhibition and event space, a design li-brary, an archive, design shop and restau-rant and bar space will develop. Compa-nies from the design industry can lease offices or integrated residential and work lofts in the upper floors. For the first time Hamburg’s respected design und art community is getting a center of its own, and a platform for communication and representation.

The German headquarters of environ-mental organization Greenpeace and eco-energy supplier Greenpeace Energy eG (45) are moving into the southern part of the ensemble, which is also 10,000 m2 GFA. Like the other users, Greenpeace in particular insists on highest standards of sustainability for the building. Certifica-tion in line with the strict gold standard of HafenCity’s Ecolabel (see page 42 ff) is the goal. Even during the competition, therefore, architect Bob Gysin was consulting experts in energy-efficient construction; he is sharing his prize with the joint venture 3-Plan Haustechnik AG, Winterthur, and EK Energiekonzepte AG of Zürich.

In future, the “Knowledge Quarter” will revolve around the HafenCity University campus, located directly at Baakenhafen. Up to now, faculties such as architecture, civil engineering, geomatics and urban planning had been scattered at various locations throughout Hamburg – but from the winter semester of 2012/13, all students can study, research and attend lectures in one single building. Construc-tion of the new HCU building at the inter-face between Magdeburger Hafen harbor

When the winter semester gets under way for 1,500 students in its new building in 2012/13, HafenCity University will contribute enormously

to the atmosphere of Elbtorquartier. The HCU building on the riverbank has already received the provisional gold Hafencity Ecolabel

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burger Hafen harbor to the west,

Brooktorhafen harbor to the north and

the future Lohsepark to the east: old

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The NIDUS joint building venture plans loft apartments with ceilings up to 5 meters high, as well as combined apartment/shops.

The boulevard character of Shanghaiallee will be created by shops, studios and showrooms on ground fl oors

and Baakenhafen harbor will begin in July 2010 (54). Designed by the Dresden archi-tects Code Unique, the building’s inviting foyer will open out towards an entrance piazza, Magdeburger Hafen harbor, and Lohsepark. Many of the lecture halls and seminar rooms will have unrestricted views over the River Elbe. This building also displays particular ecological quali-ties and has been preliminarily certified with the gold HafenCity Ecolabel.

Two other projects lend the quarter distinction on social and spiritual levels. Stadthaushotel (48), ready in 2011, will be Europe’s largest integrative hotel: 40 out of its 60 employees will have disabilities. Stadthaushotel offers about 80 rooms and a restaurant particularly suitable for guests with limited mobility. The opera-tor of Stadthaushotel is the jugend hilft jugend e.V. association and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is supporting it with an investment grant.

The ecumenical forum, “Brücke”, already debuted

in the new district with a temporary chapel in Am

Sandtorkai/Grasbrook (far left); by 2011/12 it will have

its own new building on Shanghaiallee (left).

On the embankment of Magdeburger Hafen a

meandering ensemble of buildings is taking shape,

with a city loggia (below left), whose pier construction

is partly built on existing piles (below center).

Users of the new building include Greenpeace

Deutschland (below right)

In addition, the ecumenical forum Brücke is scheduled to be open at Shang-haiallee by 2011/12. A total of 18 Christian churches will support this unique joint project in Germany. The ground floor, ac-cessible to the public, serves as a meeting place, while a chapel also offers a place of quiet in an otherwise lively quarter. The Laurentius Convent will also move into the building: members of this ecu-menical-spiritual community will live here in shared living arrangements. The architectural competition to design the 4,600 m2 building was won in July 2009 by Wandel, Hoefer, Lorch + Hirsch, Saar-brücken architects.

To the north and south of the ecu-menical forum two new buildings with unusual residential concepts are to be de-veloped. With a joint building venture, Bürgerschaft AG will provide sound-proof living and working space for musicians, sound and film creatives. Construction of

this musicians’ house will begin in 2011, while work is due to start this year on the NIDUS joint building venture: it is plan-ning shop/apartments for use as ateliers, showrooms or artisans’ studios. The com-petition to design the building was won by spine architects of Hamburg.

Even at this early stage, Elbtorquartier neighborhood has good public transport connections: Messberg subway station can be reached on foot within minutes from the north. From fall 2012, the new U4 subway line will provide direct links into the network, when the HafenCity University subway station is also due to open in the south. In addition, Elbtor-quartier will become accessible by boat: from the end of 2012, a public harbor ferry service will serve a pier directly in front of the HafenCity University entrance.

The International Maritime Museum Hamburg opened its doors in historic Kaispeicher B back in 2008. The Hanseatic city’s oldest

warehouse building had undergone a lavish reconstruction fi rst, although its neo-Gothic architecture was left untouched

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AM LOHSEPARK

Historic buildings from a bygone industrial era and remains of the former Hanover Station railroad platform refl ect the neighborhood’s signifi cant role in Hamburg’s history. With Lohsepark at its center, HafenCity’s green heart is growing - and building works can start in 2011/12

From Local Industrial Pioneers to Green Urban Heart

Lohsepark, as HafenCity’s “Central Park”, also constitutes the centerpiece

of neighborhood development. All buil-dings to the west and east connect up to the four-hectare park. In addition, the quarter has excellent transport connec-tions: the subway stop at HafenCity Uni-versity on the new U4 line will go into service in fall 2012.

The starting point for Am Lohsepark’s development was the listed building en-semble at Lohseplatz Harburger Gummi-Kamm-Compagnie, which was among the forerunners of industrialization in Hamburg. In 1836, owner Heinrich Chri-stian Meyer founded one of the first steam-driven factories in Hamburg. It produced combs, buckles, buttons and canes. The name Stockmeyerstrasse harks back to the nickname of the (cane) manuf-acturer; in 2010 the street will be re-constructed to make it flood-secure.

In the meantime, the historic ensemble at Am Lohseplatz has become a carefully renovated architectural gem. It houses, for example, the Prototyp private auto-mobile collection and, provisionally, the dean’s office of HafenCity University. Many companies from the creative and media industries also felt the pull of the inspiring environment. The historic brick ensemble will be complemented by three smaller new buildings located in its im-mediate vicinity (67–69).

To the south of Lohseplatz, two large buildings are planned for plots 70 and 71, totaling some 40,000 m2 of gross floor area (GFA), and featuring innovative resi-dential concepts for about 300-350 units. The buildings will not only offer rental apartments and condominiums but also 70 homes within the public subsidized housing program, and possibly some student accommodation. Other special concepts could be realized and a child-care center is also planned. The exclusive

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Historic place: the main

entrance of the former

Hanover railroad station

(above). Even today, the area

is characterized by industrial

remains and conserved

railroad structures (left)

option procedure for both buildings will be in fall 2010. East of Lohsepark, mixed uses, office or residential space could be realized.

The other parts east of the green space, where a secondary school and a second primary school (77) will eventually stand, are tied up until 2017 , in use by a freight forwarding company, and partially for sub-way logistics till 2012/13. This also applies to the southern section of Lohsepark.

Partial realization of the park will start earlier, however: the northern section, which is already available and, together with exercise areas and a children’s play-ground, will be accessible from 2012/13 as a central green recreational space to everyone working and living in HafenCity.

The international competition to design this open space was decided in November 2009. The 28 selected landscape architec-ture offices competing in a two-phase idea and realization competition were also asked to produce artistic proposals for a planned place of remembrance in and around the green space. The prize jury awarded first prizes to four works se-lected from the proposals in the second phase. The decision on the final winning concept will be made in early summer 2010, after a reworking phase. Finally, all the work will be exhibited to the public. The four winning designs for landscaping Lohsepark are of the highest quality and extremely individual, but they all docu-

ment the need for the greatest sensitivity in planning this park: on the site of the future park once stood Hanover railroad station. From the city’s most important railroad station up to 1906, at least 7,692 people – Jews and Sinti and Romanies – were deported during the Second World War to concentration and extermination camps.

Landscape architects participating in the combined competition to plan this historically sensitive place also partially worked with artists on the project. Their work was developed on the basis of a framework concept for the memorial first presented to the public in October 2008. The concept focuses on authentic relics of former Platform 2, including the rem-nants of several rail tracks. To protect these relics for the future, the Masterplan was actually changed.

The memorial concept foresees a land-scaped connection slashing diagonally through Lohsepark from the former rail-road station forecourt to the platform remains. This incision through the city-scape is deliberate; the sight line bet-ween the two locations allows a visual reconstruction of the historic path of de-portation trains. A new building on the west side of the park (68) will house a documentation center to complement the memorial site. An exhibition about the deportations, presented in spring 2009 in Kunsthaus Hamburg, will be loca-

All the neighborhood’s buildings are grouped to the west and east of Lohsepark

(above). Below: drawings for the design of a memorial site commemorating

deportations from the former Hanover railroad station

Aerial photograph of the site: parts of the area

are currently used by a haulage company and

still being prepared for development

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ted here. The part of the concept actually within Lohsepark cannot be realized until the relevant land becomes available in 2018.

It is true that planning Lohsepark as both a place of remembrance and a recre-ational park will be a challenge, but it is also a great opportunity: for the first time in Hamburg, a memorial of this type will be created in a location that is intensively used in everyday life.

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the beginning of 2010 the cooperation partners reoriented their principles in line with the advanced progress of cultural development in HafenCity and extended the partnership for another three years.

And in the meantime, many other Hamburg cultural institutions are get-ting involved: e.g. in late summer 2009, artists’ initiatives from all over the world gathered for subvision.kunst.festival.off on Strandkai. During the 12-day art festival, artists’ initiatives presented so-called off-art, works of an essentially ephemeral character, far off the beaten track of the conventional art market. The festival was sponsored by Hamburg’s School of Visual Arts, the Deichtorhallen galleries and the Ham-burg Kunsthalle. Many recurrent festivals or other cultural annual events already have HafenCity on their maps as a venue or performance location (such as the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festi-val, Hamburg Architecture Summer, and the Long Night of the Museums). An ad-dition since 2009 is the Harbourfront literary festival. In 2010 the Elbjazz mu-sic festival makes its debut.

Parallel to these events, permanent pri-vately supported projects – such as the Prototyp automobile museum – have be-en set up too: In the listed building of Har-burger Gummi-Kamm-Compagnie, a fac-tory that once produced rubber goods and combs, a collection of historic racing and sports cars is now on show. Local re-sidents are also becoming increasingly active: They founded the Kunstkompanie HafenCity society to support the arts. Among other ventures, they have orga-nized staircase concerts and a temporary fl oating sculpture at Grasbrookhafen.

The Cultural Coordination Committee of HafenCity coordinates the various actors and events; it was set up in May 2005 by Hamburg‘s Minister of Culture, Sports and Media, Professor Karin von Welck. Since then local authority and HafenCity repre-sentatives have met regularly with ex-perts from the performing and visual arts, classical and pop music, club culture and literature. All members return to their re-spective scenes full of the issues and ideas they have discussed and the competence of their networks is thus drawn into the debate. But the coordinating circle also

assumes a share of the responsibility for shaping cultural life in HafenCity by deve-loping concepts, creating new opportuni-ties for art and culture.

Art and culture in HafenCity is therefore not simply consumed by its residents, visi-tors and tourists, but is also produced here. Residential, work, leisure and cultural uses are tightly interwoven. HafenCity serves them as an inspirational space – a place between water and air, between the com-plete and incomplete, between new and old.

The neighboring historic Speicherstadt warehouse district makes its own contri-bution. Much more than a unique milieu, it houses several museums telling stories about the past of this listed ensemble and it is now attracting an increasing number of creative people, including artists and gallery owners. The annual open-air “Hamburger Jedermann” theater presen-ted by Michael Batz plays an important part as a “cultural pioneer”. Long before HafenCity was able to become a place of culture, this theater experience in Spei-cherstadt was a permanent feature, a part of Hamburg’s cultural scene right back in the 1990s.

COLORFUL CULTURE SCENE WITH NUMEROUS ACTORS

Cultural uses have gained steadily in importance in the emerging city district since 2003. Yet the fledgling artistic and cultural landscape still needs special support; this has led to important coope-ration and organizational structures evolving over time. Meanwhile, a wide range of protagonists are shaping the cultural scene in HafenCity.

Apart from pivotal individual initiatives, such as Musical LandArt, it was the fi rst artists’ competition, the fruit of coopera-tion between the Hamburg Cultural Foundation, Körber Foundation and HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, that really launched cultural activities in this new part of town. As many as 120 artists parti-cipated in the competition in 2004/05 and 12 of their projects were selected and realized. This was followed by theater performances under the same coopera-tion umbrella, including a specially con-ceived summer program by Thalia Theater that took place in a big top. At

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Art and artists are discovering HafenCity and being supported in many different ways. Projects of all kinds are being developed – small and large scale. Institutions with international appeal are emerging at prominent places in HafenCity. Culture is not just consumed here – HafenCity has become a place of inspiration for a variety of cultural and artistic ventures

Curtain Up: HafenCity as a Stage for Art and Culture

Until 2003 the current area of HafenCity was a big blank spot on Hamburg’s cul-

tural map because free-port status and the Harbor Development Act prohibited any type of usage that was unrelated to port activities. Therefore, art and culture could not gradually “trickle” into the port district as was certainly the case in compa-rable cities. But development of HafenCity did fi nally open up this area at the heart of Hamburg to cultural uses. Nowadays cul-tural and artistic uses are a driving force in the area’s development, adding an extra dimension to its attractions.

The decision to maintain structures typi-cal of a port where possible predestined the area for culture: historic harbor basins and quay walls, cranes and warehouses were

restored and are now used to emphasize the cultural-historic heritage of the place. Totally new settings for art and culture are also being created all over HafenCity – and by no means only large, cultural institutions such as the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, the International Maritime Museum of Hamburg or the Science Center.

HafenCity is already a venue for nu-merous cultural and artistic activities. Initially mainly ready-cleared sites were made available for temporary use, but today completed public open spaces or areas within buildings have largely taken over those functions. For the require-ments of culture and the arts are always taken into account in the design of parks, promenades and squares.

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Tales of 3,000 years of exciting maritime history on the ten decks of the former grain

silo began to be told in June 2008

Frequent art and cultural events attract Hamburg residents and visitors alike to HafenCity: whether to

festivals, off art, “mobile art supply” or regular series of events

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The ten fl oors or “decks” of the museum house an exhibition based on the private collection of Professor Peter Tamm, prima-rily consisting of model ships, design plans for ships, as well as a multitude of nautical devices, paintings and drawings. Each of the ten fl oors is devoted to a key topic, such as deep sea research or marine pain-ting. In all, 11,500 m2 of exhibition space is available. Kaispeicher B and its adjacent building also accommodate the Institute of Shipping and Marine History and a libra-ry, including an archive.

ELBPHILHARMONIE CONCERT HALL

The Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall will be an incomparable landmark for Ham-burg. Swiss star architects Herzog & de Meuron are now erecting a spectacular concert venue within the walls of mighty Kaispeicher A, a cocoa warehouse built between 1963 and 1966 to plans by archi-tect Werner Kallmorgen.

Although the core of this striking struc-

ture was completely removed, its cubic shape and brick façades remain intact. Thus, a worldwide unique architectonic hybrid is emerging, which will also house a fi ve-star hotel and 47 apartments. For the former warehouse building is crow-ned by an undulating, curved and incli-ning glass structure, blending historic port architecture and contemporary architectural creativity, port tradition and the quarter’s new self-confi dence. A public plaza offering fantastic views of the harbor, HafenCity, the River Elbe and the city will take shape at a height of 37 meters on the brick building below the new glass structure.

Two thirds of the gutted warehouse will be used for car parking, but backstage areas and places for musical education will be accommodated here as well. The new glass superstructure, almost 110 me-ters high, will contain two large auditori-ums holding audiences of 2,150 and 550 respectively. The Elbphilharmonie Con-cert Hall will become a unique, location for performances of classical music,

The organic formal language of the façade continues inside the Elbphilharmonie, while the near

perfect acoustics of the large auditorium are sure to make a big impression

Architects OMA of Rotterdam

designed the most spectacular

70-meter tall building of the

Science Center which opens like

a gate to the world of science.

The exhibition concept is based

on hands-on learning

experiences

music of the 21st century and sophistica-ted musical entertainment. Construction work for the concert hall level started at the end of 2008; by New Year 2009/10 the building had reached 16 stories or 65 meters in height. The fi rst concert in its large auditorium will be given in 2012.

The unveiling of the design by Swiss ar-chitects Herzog & de Meuron in 2003 caused an international sensation; however, their plans could only be rea-lized through the unequalled commit-ment of Hamburg citizens, who made donations totaling 68 million euros for the construction phase, as well as en-dowments towards running costs.

SCIENCE CENTER

The setting for another outstanding cul-tural project will be created by Dutch ar-chitect Rem Koolhaas with his Offi ce for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). In ear-ly 2008, he presented his second, totally reworked designs for the Science Center.

Breathtaking structure, unique position: the Elbphilharmonie rises above the structure of the old Kaispeicher A warehouse like a gigantic glass wave

(left: current status of construction, right: visualization of the fi nished concert building)

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INTERNATIONAL MARITIMEMUSEUM HAMBURG

An overarching role in the neighbor-hood is played by the three major cultural institutions in HafenCity: the Internatio-nal Maritime Museum Hamburg opened its doors in the summer of 2008. It took up residence in Kaispeicher B, a ware-house dating from 1879 (architects: Wil-helm Emil Meerwein, Bernhard Hanssen); it is actually the oldest warehouse in HafenCity and the Speicherstadt.

From the summer of 2005, architect Mirja-na Markovic had extensively renovated the warehouse at Elbtorquartier, simultaneous-ly converting it into a museum but leaving its characteristic architecture untouched. A small mall, accommodating a museum shop, a restaurant and a bistro, now runs through the ground fl oor. The pedestrian Museumsbrücke bridge across Brooktor-hafen leads directly into this passageway and provides access to the new museum from the Speicherstadt to the north.

The structure, a standing, angular ring, will be located right next to the River Elbe in Überseequartier. The Science Center opens out emblematically towards the port as well as the city, symbolizing a gate into the world of knowledge.

Its exhibition concept resembles a sci-entifi c experimental kit: the ten key to-pics will be given an exciting treatment that will make them understandable to children, teens and adults alike. The Sci-ence Center will show that science does not need to be dry and boring. The con-cept includes many hands-on exhibits. They may be touched and tried out: here, playful exploration and independent ex-periments turn learning into an exciting experience.

Project development company Groß + Partner submitted this exhibition con-cept at the end of 2006 on behalf of the Überseequartier investor consortium. It was created in close cooperation with representatives from universities, ex-perts from Hamburg and elsewhere, sci-

entific journalists, departments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, and HafenCity Hamburg GmbH.

The next steps to finance and realize the 23,000 m2 GFA project are already under way: on the financing side, the Überseequartier consortium is making a contribution, while additional funds will be acquired through partial private uses of the building. Significant support is moreover expected from sponsors, for the project represents an important op-portunity for visitors to experience the scientific and technical topics of society at first hand, which should also promote interest in natural science and the aca-demic study of these subjects. When construction of the project can begin, after completion of detailed pre-plan-ning, still has to be decided.

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SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

For many decades Hamburg city was completely dominated by offi ce and retail uses. Now HafenCity, with its future population of some 12,000 residents, is reinforcing the “living” aspects of city-center life. This opens up a whole new world of opportunities for creating a lively and pleasant inner-city core - in which urbane environment and neighborly coexistence complement each other

City-center life: HafenCity as a place of neighborly coexistence

The variety of living concepts in Hafen-City is exceptional: apartments to rent

or to buy are available in different price brackets, homes are being built by buil-ding cooperatives and joint building ventures, and there are even special faci-lities on offer, for example for musicians, designers or seniors. The fi rst subsidized rental apartments will be built in Am Lohsepark neighborhood. Throughout Hafen-City, the spectrum of concepts, prices and architectural styles available motivates people of all ages and from the most diverse backgrounds to get in-terested in HafenCity. Even though spe-cial factors in HafenCity, such as fl ood protection, foundations of buildings and high ecological standards, mean that rentals run at two to three euro per square meter more than comparable new-builds nearer the city center core, living in HafenCity is attractive to wide-ranging social groups.

This is mirrored in the residential struc-ture so far: at an early stage of HafenCity’s development a signifi cant number of families made the decision to move into the new district. One of the strongest

attractions is to be able to combine job and family easily and fl exibly from a base in HafenCity. Here it is not just the availa-bility of jobs, but also the high-quality child care that matters. Another strongly represented group of residents are coup-les aged 50+, who want to start afresh after their children have moved out of the family home. They tend then to look for a new home, usually smaller, but situated in stimulating surroundings. Their high degree of mobility also means that access to a railroad station, airport and fast roads is indispensable, too. Then comes the group of no-longer-working seniors, who have pinpointed HafenCity as their new base for retirement. Retirees com-bine their move to HafenCity with the wish to open a new (residential) biogra-phical chapter, which is why they have chosen to live in a place where attractive activities – culture, events, the chance to get involved themselves – are only just around the corner, adding up to a socially alive environment. Their next-door neighbors are likely to be young, career-driven couples and single people who are attracted by the new district’s prestige

waterfront position, housing with lots of potential for creating individual homes, and of course the central location of this new part of town.

For many residents it is exactly this community of people with such different lifestyles that makes HafenCity so exci-ting. Yet there are also a whole lot of aspects that bond residents, such as iden-tifi cation with the area’s orientation towards the river and the port, desire for an urban context to live in, as well as the wish to be part of a new venture and to become active in shaping it.

This prevailing positive mood has led to the rapid development of contacts

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between neighbors in the fi rst completed quarter, Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai: a fl urry of communication channels and networks has been set up, such as the digi-tal residents’ forum hafencityleben.de, or the HafenCity-Zeitung, a paper started by one of the locals on his own initiative (www.hafencitynews.de), regular local get-togethers, as well as outings and other occasions of different kinds such as a fl ea market, a summer celebration and a series of courtyard parties. Sport is not neg-lected either: Störtebeker SV sports club offers a wide range of activities, while culture-vultures enjoy events such as stairwell concerts organized by Kunstcom-

pagnie e.V., an art and culture project. Pa-rents who decided the Treasure Island playground needed a play house, got toge-ther and made it happen. The club they founded, Spielhaus HafenCity e.V., not only runs the play house and various acti-vities for children such as a music garden and theater, but is also a setting in which families in HafenCity can get to meet.

So many residents are already experien-cing HafenCity as a place which offers them a lot of added value in terms of neighborliness, compared with the areas they lived in before. This experience also seems to galvanize them to get actively involved in their new residential surroun-dings. Identifi cation with the new district is actively promoted by HafenCity Ham-burg GmbH, which encourages such initi-atives and seeks intensive dialog with residents through a variety of channels – direct contact, as well as through regular information and discussion forums. In-tensive communication of this kind is in line with the very interesting, but also very demanding residential constellation offered by HafenCity, whose success should not be taken for granted. This is why HafenCity Hamburg GmbH regards it as a responsibility, not only to establish a mix of diverse uses within localized areas – housing, work, retail and gastronomy, as

Neighborliness and urban life: protected areas reserved for residents (left) and public urban

spaces (right) have been laid out in close proximity

The new district has something for

everyone, whether they are single,

young couples, families or seniors. The

spectrum of spacious squares and

promenades in the west now also

includes a playground and courts for

basketball and boules

well as cultural and tourist attractions – but to make sure that these different components actually gel, and help to maintain a careful equilibrium.

One initiative to encourage residents, local societies, businesses and initiatives to take on an even greater share of re-sponsibility for their city district was the founding of Netzwerk HafenCity e.V. The network is a forum where many questions of detail that affect everyday life and work in HafenCity are discussed – and so-lutions found. The society sees it-self as the unifying hub for a series of working parties on different issues, and plans to take on the role of initiator for events and festivities. But it makes clear that it should not be mistaken as a vehicle for realizing the specifi c interests of individuals. In-stead, and in line with the founding con-cept for the new city district, it should be a forum for mutual cooperation.

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Around Sandtorhafen harbor, an ensemble of open spaces is inviting at any time of day or night. The fl oating promenade of the Traditional Ship Harbor is in

the harbor basin itself, while at its head are the Magellan Terraces. Many passers by are already thronging the promenades along the south side of Sandtorkai

and the northern edge of Dalmannkai

moorings for up to 30 historic watercraft.The Marco Polo Terraces – opened in

2007 – are much larger than the Magel-lan Terraces, with an area of 6,400 m2. But with their grass islands and wooden decks, sweet gum and bald cypress trees, they are broken down into smaller sec-tions, so that they appear more pro-tected, green and soft. They have views

of the River Elbe and Grasbrookhafen harbor, where a pleasure craft marina is scheduled for construction from 2011. Smaller, more private squares, prome-nades and steps were created at Dal-mannkai.

Unifying elements for the different ur-ban spaces and buildings are for instance the quayside promenades, which now

add up to a completed continuous length of around ten kilometers. From Sandtor-kai promenade, walkers or cyclists can reach Kaiserkai promenade; it leads past three historic port cranes to the fore-court of the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, a few steps away from Dalmannkai promenade. On Dalmannkai promenade walkers or cyclists can also take in Vasco

A grand fl ight of steps in the open air is

Unileverhaus’s dramatic stage on the Elbe (above);

the Marco Polo Terraces, with their wooden

decking and leafy areas, is a nice place to take a

rest (above right). Open spaces throughout Hafen-

City are taking shape on two levels; ramps and

steps link them together, as at Vasco da Gama

square (right)

PUBLIC URBAN SPACES

The new neighborhood is enriching Hamburg with exciting, new urban spaces – beside the water, and even on it

A City of Plazas, Parks and Promenades

It is probably more than coincidence that both of the major competitions to

landscape open space decided so far were won by architectural firms from Barcelona: the importance HafenCity at-taches to urban open spaces usually ap-plies only in a few, generally southern European cities. For in the new district, squares, promenades and parks not only serve as a thread linking various forms of architecture and uses, as well as public places – but also as distinguishing fea-tures in their own right.

The significance of these places for HafenCity is clear from just a few key fi-gures: 20 per cent of its land area is to be developed as open space, while public access rights, or at least rights of way, apply to an additional 17 per cent. Fur-thermore, some of the 34 hectares of

water surface (excluding the River Elbe) will also be configured and used. Thus, a diversified canon made up of small and larger boulevards, parks, squares and promenades beside and on the water emerges in HafenCity.

Architectural firm EMBT Arquitectes Associates designed the urban spaces in the western section of HafenCity, which are to a large extent completed. EMBT won recognition in 2002 in the associa-ted urban space competition: the plan-ners designed an elaborate and esthetic interplay between land and water; even the tides were used as an element of de-sign. The severe forms typical of a port contrast with airy Mediterranean influ-ences.

Two large plazas were created at the heads of the harbor basins at Sandtor-

hafen harbor (Magellan Terraces) and Grasbrookhafen harbor (Marco Polo Ter-races). Their cosmopolitan ambience is emphasized by their being named after famous discoverers. The term “terrace” describes the type of space: the Magel-lan Terraces, completed in 2005, cascade down to the water on several levels, co-vering 4,700 m2. Their rather hard sur-faces underline their urban character.

From the Magellen Terraces the gaze sweeps across to the Traditional Ship Harbor in Sandtorhafen harbor, opened in 2008, which fits seamlessly into the urban space concept: historic bridges lead down to specially created floating pontoons. This floating promenade is a 5,600 m2 space that rises and falls with the tide, offering constant contact with the water as well as permanent

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Squares, promenades and green areas are already partly laid out on the embankment

of Grasbrookhafen; a sport marina is planned for the harbor basin

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On Dalmannkai Promenade, the Dalmannkai Steps showcase the riverbank area of Grasbrookhafen. The four green

areas sloping towards the water attract passers by to stop and look or take a break

A promenade is being built along the western embankment of Magdeburger Hafen (top), parallel to Shanghaiallee; the eastern side

joins onto the square in front of the International Maritime Museum Hamburg (above left and right)

da Gama plaza and the Marco Polo Terra-ces, while a publicly accessible mall leads through Unilever House to the new open air steps on the Elbe embankment.

Architect Beth Galí and her firm BB + GG arquitectes of Barcelona won the competition for landscaping central HafenCity – in other words the open spaces in Überseequartier, Magdeburger Hafen harbor and St. Annenplatz. The first plaza designed by the firm, in front of the International Maritime Museum Hamburg at Kaispeicher B, is ready. The material chosen references the brick ar-chitecture of the former warehouse buil-ding: lines of brown and reddish granite dissect the asphalt terrazzo. The remai-ning urban spaces of central HafenCity

are scheduled – like the above-ground structures of this area – to be completed by 2013/14 (see page 24).

Also already partially realized are the designs of two German landscape archi-tects’ firms for landscaping interfaces between HafenCity and the Speicher-stadt. In 2008, BHF Landschaftsarchi-tekten of Kiel, won the “Best Project 1989-2008” prize, awarded by the annu-al publication “Architecture in Ham-burg”, with its design for building plinths and the promenade on Sandtorkai. The Hamburg office of WES & Partner Land-schaftsarchitekten is responsible for design of open spaces in Brooktorkai/Ericus neighborhood. The areas concer-ned – primarily quay promenades and a

plaza on Ericusspitze – will be laid out between 2010 and 2012. The public pro-menade at Brooktorhafen has been under construction since the beginning of 2010.

The green spaces in west and central HafenCity, still awaiting development, will put their mark on the cityscape: Sandtorpark and Grasbrookpark are part of the EMBT open space concept in the west. At the moment, land for the two future parks is being used for develop-ment or construction site purposes, work cannot begin until 2010 at the ear-liest on one and not before 2013 on the other. However, the 850 m2 Treasure Is-land playground at ViewPoint was open-ed in the summer of 2008; as soon as

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Grasbrookpark is ready, it will be re-placed by a new and significantly larger play area there.

Then the “Central Park” of HafenCity will be the four-hectare Lohsepark, ex-tending from Baakenhafen harbor to the River Elbe in future. The decision on the combined open space competition for its design will be announced in early summer 2010. The 30 architectural firms invited to take part were also asked to produce an artistic draft for a memorial to remember the Jewish, Sinti and Romany people deported from the near-by former Hanover railroad station (see page 30 f).

In addition to these many public open spaces, a whole lot of private areas are also accessible to all residents, local em-ployees and visitors: public and private

sites are closely interlocked and many spaces in private ownership are subject to general rights of way. This ensures, for

example, that private areas between buildings are passable to pedestrians or cyclists – and that the neighborhood is crisscrossed by a dense network of such paths.

Private areas of this kind accessible to the general public usually echo the de-sign of neighboring public spaces. On Strandkai, for example, the public spa-ces and the atrium of the new Unilever headquarters are paved with the same material throughout. In Überseequartier, journalistic activity, political advertising, demonstrations, begging and artistic and cultural activities such as musical performances are all allowed in private areas. Such regulations are set down in

the register of real estate and a com-plaints commission monitors compli-ance. However, a very small proportion of the private spaces in HafenCity (some four per cent) are reserved for the exclu-sive use of local residents.

PUBLIC URBAN SPACES

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HafenCity as a brownfi eld development: the old areas of port and industrial uses in the new district make way for 22

hectares of parks, squares and promenades. The ground, as a resource, is used extremely effi ciently

Seventy per cent of foot and cycling paths run independently of motorized traffic on promenades, piers and squares – 30 per cent of them run beside water. For anyone without a bicycle, the red city bikes in the new Hamburg bike rental scheme stand waiting to be hired at Grosser Grasbrook, near the Marco Polo Terraces. And since the new district al-most completely lacks any extended blocks of buildings, people on foot and cyclists seldom have to take a long way round. Thoroughfares between many free-standing buildings are also availa-ble. Public rights of way here are mostly permanently guaranteed.

Heat is supplied to the new district through innovative and sustainable con-cepts. After a Europe-wide tender proce-dure, the heat supply contract for HafenCity’s western section was awar-ded to energy supplier Vattenfall in 2003: an upper emission limit value of 175 grams of carbon dioxide per kilowatt hour (g/kWh) will not be exceeded. Compared with gas-powered heating units in individual buildings, this amounts to a 27 per cent reduction. All buildings in western HafenCity are con-nected to district heating networks for this purpose. In combination with de-centralized heat generated by fuel-cell technology and solar thermal energy, this produces a very efficient blend of energy – in some cases geothermal plants are used for individual buildings.

Heat supply for HafenCity’s eastern section, an area largely still in the plan-ning stage, will see CO2 emission limits reduced even more significantly to just 89 g/kWh. After tenders had been invi-

ted from all over Europe, energy services supplier Dalkia Energie won the contract in 2009, after clearly undercutting the 125 g/kWh emission limit threshold set for the tender. Its concept is for a local energy supply network, fed by various power units both within and outside Ha-fenCity. These will include a woody bio-mass-fired combuster, a biomethane fuel cell and a heat pump – almost all energy sources are renewable. Because of its decentralized structure, the sy-stem can be developed flexibly as the new neighborhood grows. Flexibility was a crucial factor in this tender: since development of HafenCity will continue into the 2020s, future demand cannot be accurately estimated at this stage.

But it is not only fundamental concepts of this type affecting the whole new de-velopment area that make HafenCity such a model of sustainability, it is also

the site of a series of research and future projects centering on sustainability: in Grosser Grasbrook, for instance, tests are under way to see how room climate can be dehumidified through geother-mal means. Right next door in the hea-ting plant in western HafenCity, a pilot fuel cell project is in operation. And at Oberbaumbrücke, the central gateway to the new district, Europe’s largest pu-blic hydrogen filling station is being in-stalled. In future, Hamburg Hochbahn’s growing fleet of hydrogen-powered buses will be refueling here.

Sustainability also plays an important role in the implementation of individual construction projects.

Since 2007 HafenCity Hamburg GmbH has been awarding the gold Ecolabel for extraordinary, and the silver Ecolabel for special attainments in realizing sustai-nable buildings. The award is designed

A city of short distances: many destinations are so close together that

they are reached most quickly by walking or cycling

Hamburg is building for the future by creating HafenCity, putting leading-edge standards into place right now. Ecological sustainability is inherent to the design of many new individual buildings, but the underlying concept of HafenCity itself is founded on the sensible use of resources

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Where once only industry and port uses dominated the cityscape for more

than a century, construction of a new district, providing homes and workplaces, cultural and recreational facilities as well as high-quality public spaces, is growing apace. Hamburg is no longer growing on its greenfi eld peripheries, as was the case in the 1980s and 1990s. Instead old areas of the port are being upgraded – and the area of Hamburg’s city center is being ex-panded by 40 per cent in the process.

SUSTAINABILITY

In contaminated places such as the site of the old gasworks, the soil was remo-ved in an involved process and replaced. This considerably enhances the ecologi-cal value of this old industrial area – sur-face sealing of soil has also been reduced significantly. Plazas, promenades and parks are now taking shape on a total of approx. 24 hectares. Intensive use has been made of the ground as a resource: HafenCity will not have a single parking garage above ground – apart from par-

king in the base of the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall – because of the generous space in underground garages in the plinths of buildings. Parking above ground is strictly limited in general.

In addition, as HafenCity development is so very central, it can also be reached easily without a car. The two stops of the new U4 subway line, being built in its heart, will ensure excellent connections to local public transport services. Additi-onal stops for the U1 and U3 lines are just a stone’s throw to the north of the Spei-cherstadt. And cyclists and pedestrians can reach the new city district within a few minutes.

Once inside HafenCity, the fine-grained mix of work, retail, gastronomic or resi-dential uses ensures short distances to almost everywhere – aided by a close-knit network of pedestrian and bicycle paths. Pedestrians have two and a half times as many kilometers of pathway at their disposal as motorists – sidewalks running on both sides of roads are only counted once. The density of footpaths is thus double that in the similarly densely built, late 19th century district of Eims-büttel, for instance.

HafenCity’s extremely dense network of foot

and cycling paths encourages sustainable

transport modes. Pedestrians have at their

disposal two and a half times more

kilometers of routes than motorists and can

also relxax in the many seating areas

provided in public spaces

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to motivate private and public develo-pers to handle resources responsibly. In addition to the ecological factors, it also ranks economic and social sustainability according to five criteria. In this respect, HafenCity is a pioneer: certification va-lid throughout Germany was first intro-duced in January 2009 by the German association for sustainable building (DGNB).

Ecolabels may be awarded on a preli-minary basis even before construction begins. The developer has to make the relevant application. To do so it submits technical planning documents iden-tifying the building’s special or outstan-ding claims to sustainability. After these documents have been approved by an independent assessor, the Ecolabel will be awarded preliminarily. This gives builders and developers the chance to feature preliminary certification in their marketing phase. Potential purchasers or lessees are able to receive confirma-tion of the sustainable features of their real estate project from an independent assessor. A final certificate will only be awarded once the building project is completed and the implementation of sustainability standards can be finally proven.

The first category to be fulfilled for the award of an Ecolabel is a significant red-uction of primary energy consumption (well below statutory requirements) for running a building. In the Ecolabel’s se-cond category, those construction pro-jects will score that handle public goods in a sustainable manner, for instance, by cutting water consumption through advanced sanitary facilities. The award also recognizes planning that makes available ground and basement floors of

buildings for bistros, cafés, restaurants, exhibition space or retail concepts.

In the third category, HafenCity re-wards the use of ecofriendly construc-tion materials. To satisfy requirements, buildings must be free of materials con-taining halogen, any volatile solvents or biocides. All tropical wood has to stem from certified, sustainable sources.

Particular consideration of health and well-being are also central aspects of certification. Parameters such as room

temperature, non-allergenic fixtures and fittings, humidity and air quality are decisive factors in this fourth category. Sustainable building facility operations including low maintenance and the use of durable materials constitute the fifth category, which also includes barrier-free mobility. In this last category, a “monitoring” certificate to show the ac-tual consumption of energy in the first two years of operation of the building has to be provided.

The Ecolabel has very quickly proven a huge success: within two years, prelimi-nary certification has been awarded for around 240,000 m2 of gross floor area, applied for or received (status: spring 2010). Gold has been preliminarily awar-ded, among others, to the new Kathari-nenschule primary, the new Unilever headquarters, the new Spiegel group publishing building, as well as the new HafenCity University building, the Com-mercial Center building at Sandtorpark, as well as to a building in Elbtorquartier to be occupied, among others, by Green-peace Deutschland and the design cen-ter designport hamburg. Other buildings will quickly follow because it is increasingly the case that tender invita-tions include the requirement that the

building project concerned should meet the stringent standards of the gold Eco-label – and tenants tend to insist on them more often. The aim is to reach a level of 30 per cent gold certifi cation throughout central HafenCity and in the east, al-though the actual level achieved is ex-pected to be a lot higher. In future, the realization of buildings which include re-sidential uses will only be possible if they comply to the gold standard Ecolabel.

Since 2010, certification has been available for buildings housing retail or

hotel uses, as well as those with mixed uses, not just for residential and office buildings, or special constructions. At the same time, the new Ecolabel differentiates between the various use requirements: hotels of course have different primary energy needs than re-sidential or office buildings, for examp-le. The certification system takes this factor into consideration. This means that the HafenCity Ecolabel can now be applied to every building type relevant to a central city.

Europe’s largest hydrogen fi lling station is being built at Oberbaumbrücke. In future, Hamburger

Hochbahn’s growing fl eet of hydrogen-powered buses will refuel their tanks here

The fuel cell helps to minimise CO2 emissions

and is part of the energy effi ciency concept

for the heat supply of HafenCity

An unusually ecological concept for

sustainable heating supply has been

developed for HafenCity East.

Low-emission thermal power is produced

in several locations, fed into a local

heating network

DALKIA

SUSTAINABILITY

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stretch of Elbe riverbank (about 3.3 km in length from west to east), it is an integra-ted landscape of water and harbor basins where water meets land on a total ten ki-lometer contact area. It even has naviga-ble stretches of water suitable for ocean-going vessels, and correspondingly deep quay walls. All in all, the development of HafenCity’s infrastructure is a particularly complex and financially demanding task, which also has to be carried out in parallel to a multitude of construction activities by private investors.

The HafenCity area shows ample evi-dence of its past as an industrial and port district. The extension of the modern port facilities that began in 1862 gave this area its signature appearance which lar-gely remains – harbor basins, quay walls and several existing historical buildings renovated and revived for new uses,

constitute HafenCity’s typical character. In many places, Am Sandtorkai/Dal-

mannkai, for instance, historic structures could be partially conserved. New quay walls were built in sections where the old substance was too damaged or previously did not exist, as in the case of the new squares. The area’s industrial uses left tra-ces: highly contaminated ground on a number of sites had to be cleaned.

Flood protection was, and remains an im-portant precondition for building Hafen-City. There was a conscious decision not to surround it with dikes. Works would have had to be completed prior to realization of the first buildings throughout the 123-hec-tare land area of the new district; a speedy start to HafenCity’s development would therefore not have been possible. Dike construction would also have generated significant front-end costs. From a built en-

vironment standpoint, dikes would have cut off the view as well as access to the wa-ter – and destroyed many of HafenCity’s unique waterfront characteristics.

Instead, new buildings – and streets – are built on elevated mounds: these founda-tions are eight meters above mean sea le-vel, protect the development from floods and offer space inside for flood-secure par-king garages. In contrast, promenades and certain squares will remain at this area’s current elevation of about 4 to 5.5 meters above sea level, therefore attractively pre-serving their close links to the water.

An additional challenge to construction of roads and buildings is the clay soil. Clay, a so-called cohesive soil layer, changes in volume according to humidity, which means it is not capable of bearing heavy weight. This is why all buildings in Hafen-City are built on piles. These are usually

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HafenCity’s backbone is its new infrastructure: in building it, however, the area’s proximity to water, ground conditions and fl ood risks present particular challenges

Infrastructure – Basis for the New Urban Development

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Large urban development projects that evolve from land use conversions are

faced with the management of major land development activities (e.g. demolition of unusable buildings or decontamination of soil) and tremendous infrastructural tasks – the prerequisites for any new uses with increased urban density. This includes buil-ding new roads and high-capacity water, sewerage, power supply, district heating and communication networks.

In the case of HafenCity, a number of other important and site-specific infra-structural requirements have to be ful-filled which will increase the construction costs of new uses of land.

The HafenCity site is an island indented by several harbor basins in the River Elbe. The prerequisites for intensive and urban

use are therefore internal and external links and integration, to be provided by a total of 25 new and renovated bridges.

Issues also to be taken into account in-clude the east-west orientation of the Speicherstadt’s historic warehouses, ac-ting like a barrier between HafenCity and the city centre core, as well as waterways extending in an east-west direction (for example, Zollkanal). These meant, for in-stance, that efficient public transport con-nections would only work well via subway. Furthermore, the whole of HafenCity is, or rather was, situated outside Hamburg’s dike line on low-lying land 4 to 5.5 meters above sea level, which means that it is sub-ject to occasional flooding and that extra protection is required.

And finally, HafenCity not only includes a Complex renewal of infrastructure is a prerequisite for converting old port sites. A whole new network of streets is emerging

in HafenCity and its many bridges already link it to the existing city center

Cross section through a quay: the fl ood-protected

access route, buildings on fl ood-protected elevations

and embankments can be seen. Quay and promena-

de areas remain at a lower level. The sectional view

also shows the construction of the old quay walls

with rear anchorings (above). The interplay of quay

walls, promenades at a historically low level, and

fl ood-secure embankments on Dalmannkai creates a

new city topography in the district (right)

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emergency vehicles. The second flood-proof road axis runs via Oberbaumbrücke bridge, Brooktorkai, Shanghaiallee and Überseeallee; but remains open to traffic in case of flooding.

Roads in HafenCity are planned in at an early stage – along with footpaths, cycle routes and public open spaces. But the ac-tual realization of road surfacing, pave-ments, cycling lanes or parking bays only takes place gradually and in close coordi-nation with construction firms. For until the investors are found and the architectu-ral plans are finalized, the entrance area to the building site cannot be determined. During the structural engineering phase, in any case, construction traffic usually makes huge demands on neighboring sites. This is why all HafenCity roads initi-ally get temporary surfaces. The final sur-face, together with ancillary surfaces, is then laid and finished after completion of the surrounding buildings.

Four road bridges currently connect HafenCity with the city centre core. Am Sandtorkai/Brooktorkai, a street running east-west, serves as HafenCity’s central northern access road link. From it, traffic fans out along several south-bound streets, but primarily Shanghaiallee and Osakaallee. The latter has a double role: it continues north across Kornhausbrücke bridge and, together with an extension of

the so-called “Domachse”, connects up di-rectly with Jungfernstieg. HafenCity’s east is accessed via Überseeallee and Vers-mannstrasse, which channel traffic all the way to the Elbe bridges.

However, HafenCity’s central location encourages people to do without their ve-hicles. The wide network of pedestrian walkways and bicycle paths is extraordi-narily dense (see p 38 ff); and those wi-thout a bicycle can now rent one in Grosser Grasbrook, where a row of red city bikes in the city bike rental system awaits.

An essential requirement for the sustai-nable development of HafenCity, with its dense residential and mixed uses and large numbers of visitors, is an efficient close-knit public transport system. Two existing subway stops on the U1 and U3 lines are located directly at the interface to the existing city center. By fall 2012, the new U4 line will be completed, providing two new stops – Überseequartier and Ha-fenCity University. As soon as a trains start running, 23,000 passengers per day are expected between Überseequartier/

Transport infrastructure planning paid particular consideration

to the needs of cyclists and pedestrians; the network of routes

for their use is both dense and wide-reaching

driven around 20 meters deep into the earth, into ground that can sustain the weight. During construction of the new Spiegel publishing headquarters and the Ericus Contor office building at Ericusspit-ze alone, 1,000 concrete piles were used, for example.

For road building, structural fill pro-cesses are used: first the weight of heaped up sand presses any water out of the as yet unstable ground; once most water has flowed away and the sand has settled, pi-ping and conduit can be laid and roads built; the final road surface is not applied until surrounding buildings are completed.

All new roads have been laid at a flood-secure level of 7.5 to 8 meters; in addition, new flood-proof bridges will be built or older bridges renovated and raised. The only exception is the road Am Sandtorkai/western Brooktorkai that runs between HafenCity and Speicherstadt: because of the proximity of the historic Speicher-stadt, raising this street over its entire width was not possible.

For the unlikely event of a storm surge, therefore, new flood-secure accesses to HafenCity are being created. The first one already runs across the Kibbelsteg-brücken bridges. Under normal circum-stances, they are an attractive route for pedestrians and cyclists; in flood situa-tions, these bridges will be reserved for

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evtl. ganz raus

INFRASTRUCTURE

The existing city center, the Speicherstadt and HafenCity are linked via the Kibbelstegbrücke bridges

which also function as rescue service routes in case of fl ooding

HafenCity will be linked into the public transport system with two subway stops on the new U4 line. The shell of Überseequartier

station was completed in January 2009; technical installation is starting soon

The U4 subway will connect HafenCity to the central hubs of Jungfernstieg, the central

station and Berliner Tor. Hamburg Hochbahn is already running regular bus services into

the district (public transport concept goal)

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HafenCity University and Jungfernstieg. Even today, HafenCity also has a dense transport network that is continually adju-sted to keep pace with the growth of the new district. And in future, HafenCity will also be accessible by water: The first pier will be served by HADAG harbor ferries from late 2010.

So the transport system is growing with the new district, while new infrastructure projects are getting under way, primarily in the east and south. An additional bridge in the east will connect Versmannstrasse via the wholesale market site to Amsinck-strasse, relieving HafenCity of much through traffic. A new tunnel connects Oberhafen neighborhood to the east of Shanghaiallee, an area cut off by railroad tracks, with Lohsepark quarter. This tun-nel, to be built at the earliest in 2012, will give users a quick route to the U4 station, HafenCity University.

Another new bridge to be built, this time across Baakenhafen, will link the northern part of Baakenhafen neighborhood with its southern part and, in the medium term,

could be extended to cross the River Elbe. Because of its position, giving an unob-structed view onto the Norderelbe River, the realization competition, now under way, poses tricky problems for the design of the bridge structure. Towers planned for construction to the east of the new bridge from 2012 will provide it with a flood-proof link to the central HafenCity area.

The planning and realization of these complex infrastructural measures (ex-ception for privately owned sites) is the responsibility of the developer, publicly owned HafenCity Hamburg GmbH. These top-quality, innovative infrastruc-ture services in HafenCity are exclusively financed by sales of land sites in the plan-ning zone. However, the new U4 subway line, planned and realized by Hamburger Hochbahn AG, is financed out of budge-tary funds from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and federal subsidies. Hamburg’s state budget is also funding external accessibility to HafenCity (e.g. the remodeling of the Domplatz axis), the planned reconstruction of

Deichtorplatz, as well as other junctions and bridges between HafenCity and other city neighborhoods to be constructed in future.

INFRASTRUCTURE

HafenCity offers ten kilometers of interface between water and land, which now needs to be integrated into the

new infrastructure of the district – as here at Dalmannkai Promenade

agenda/Huppertz: p.48 top right

Daniel Barthmann: p.36 bottom right, p.37 top, p.43 bottom

BB & GG Arquitectes: p.41 top

Michael Behrendt/ Überseequartier Beteiligungs GmbH: p.24 top, p.25 all BGP Architekten, illustration: Raumbegleiter: cover, p.28 bottom, p.29 bottom right Bert Brüggemann: p.33 bottom left

Code Unique: p.27 top Datenland / DC Commercial:p.17 bottom center

Dalkia GmbH:p.45 bottom

Markus Dorfmüller: p.31 bottom left

Bina Engel: p.37 center

Fotofrizz: p.4/5 top, p.8/9, p.10/11 bottom, p.22/23, p.26 bottom, p.31 top

Gärtner & Christ: p.35 bottom

Christoph Gebler:cover bottom left, p.16 bottom, p.17 bottom left, p.20 bottom left, p.36 bottom left, p.37 center right, p.41 center left

PICTURES BY

Hafen City Hamburg GmbH: p.30 bottom, p.31 center right, p.46 center, p.48 bottom

Hamburger Hochbahn AG: p.48 top left

Thomas Hampel/ELBE & FLUT: cover top left & top right & center right, p.4 bottom left & bottom right, p.5 bottom center & bottom right, p.6 bottom left, bottom center & bottom right, p.7 bottom left, bottom center & bottom right, p.11 top, p.12/13 all, p.14 /15 all, p.16 top left, p.17 top left & top right, p.18 left, p.19 center left & center right, p.20 bottom right, p.21, p.28 top & center left, p.29 bottom left, p.31 bottom right, p.32 bottom left & bottom right, p.33 top left, top right & center bottom, p.36 top right, p.38 all, p.40 bottom, p.42 top & bottom, p.43 top, p.46 bottom, p.47 top, p.49 bottom, p.50 top

Herzog & de Meuron: p.34 top right, p.35 top left & top right

Oliver Heissner: cover center left, p.34 top left

Reto Klar: flap exterior

KBNK Kähne Birwe Nähring Krause/ Astoc Architects & Planners/Lichtecht: p.17 bottom left

Martin Kohler: p.4 bottom center

Brigitte Kölle: p.33 bottom right

Michael Korol: p.6 top, p.16 top right, p.19 bottom, p.20 top, p.24 bottom, p.26 top, p.30 top

Tim Corvin Kraus: p.41 center right

Achim Multhaupt: p.49 top

Julian Sippel: p.37 center left

spine architects/ Illustration: Munzinger PR:p.29 top

Theresa Thiele: p.5 bottom left

U-53 Büro für Kommunikationsdesign und Illustration GbR, Peter Pichler:p.44 bottom

Vattenfall: p.44 top, p.45 top

Wandel, Hoefer, Lorch + Hirsch: p.28 center right

WES & Partner Schatz, Betz, Kaschke, Wehberg-Krafft Landschaftsarchitekten / Felix Holzapfel-Herziger: p.19 top

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