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The building was designed by Henry Hornbostel, who was also responsible for several nearby buildings at Carnegie Mellon University. The university purchased the complex from the Bureau of Mines in 1985. [4] The main building, also known as Building A, was renamed Hamburg Hall and is now the headquarters of the Heinz College.
After the old city hall was destroyed in the great fire of 1842, it took almost 44 years to build a new one. The present building was designed by a group of seven architects, led by Martin Haller. Construction started in 1886 and the new city hall was inaugurated in 1897. Its cost was 11 million German gold marks, about €80 million. [1]
Hamburg Hall, home of the Heinz College. Heinz College is headquartered in Hamburg Hall, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designed by noted Beaux-Arts architect Henry Hornbostel. Hamburg Hall is named for Lester A. Hamburg, an industrialist and philanthropist active in the Pittsburgh Jewish Community. [7]
The easternmost part of the building is rented by Westin as the Westin Hamburg Hotel that opened on 4 November 2016. [23] The hotel offers 244 rooms between the 9th and 20th floors. The lobby in the 8th floor can be accessed from the Plaza. The upper floors west of the concert hall accommodate 45 luxury apartments.
The new location of the Consulate General is at Kehrweider 8, 20257 Hamburg, in Amundsen Haus of the Hanseatic Trade Center building complex. [7] In 2007, Ms. Karen E. Johnson succeeded Duane C. Butcher as consul general in Hamburg. [8] As of 2009, 31 consuls and 22 consuls general had served in Hamburg. [3]
The chamber's main building (2006) Floor of the Hamburg Stock Exchange (Börse), inside the Chamber of Commerce. The Hamburg Chamber of Commerce (Handelskammer Hamburg), originally named the Commercial Deputation (Commerz-Deputation), is the chamber of commerce for the city state of Hamburg, and was founded in 1665.
[1] [15] It is directly connected to the Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg, which was opened in 1973 and renovated in 2009. [16] The building has a total capacity of 105,000 square metres (126,000 sq yd), has over 50 rooms, and accommodates up to 12,000 people. [4] [10] The perennial roof garden on the top of Hall H is the largest in Europe. [7]
The building's inauguration took place on June 1, 1904. The building was planned for the Hamburger Freihafen-Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft (HFLG), today called Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), as the head office and was the successor to the headquarters building at Sandtorkai 1, which itself was inaugurated in 1887 and had since become too small.