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The city hall is located in the center of Hamburg. In front of it is a market-square, the Rathausmarkt, used for events and festivals. At the rear of the town hall is the Hamburg Stock Exchange. The main shopping street, Mönckebergstraße, connects the town hall with the central station.
The project is the result of a private initiative by the architect and real estate developer Alexander Gérard and his wife Jana Marko, [5] an art historian, who commissioned the original design by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, [6] [7] [2] who developed and promoted the project (since 2003 in cooperation with the Hamburg-based ...
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.
Hamburg City Hall: 112 m (367 ft) 1897 Second tallest city hall in Germany. 1 Elbphilharmonie: 110 m (361 ft) 26 2017 Elbe Philharmonic Hall is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg. 2 Radisson Blu Hotel Hamburg: 108 m (354 ft) 32 1973 Tallest hotel building in Hamburg. 3 Columbus Haus: 105 m (344 ft) 23 1997
The main landmark of the HafenCity is the Elbphilharmonie concert hall. In a narrower sense, HafenCity Hamburg is a project of urban regeneration where the "greater Grasbrook" area of the former Hamburg free port is being revitalised with new hotels, shops, office buildings, and residential areas. The project is considered the largest urban ...
The royal couple is visiting the city as part of their three-day tour of Germany, which saw the King make history by becoming the first British monarch to address the Bundestag. It is King Charles ...
The 110-metre-high (361-foot) Elbphilharmonie concert hall. Hamburg State Opera is a leading opera company. Its orchestra is the Philharmoniker Hamburg. The city's other major orchestra is the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. The main concert venue is the new concert hall Elbphilharmonie. Before it was the Laeiszhalle, Musikhalle Hamburg.
Construction began in 2021 and was halted in 2023 due to bankruptcy of the main financier Rene Benko of Signa Holdings. If completed, the tower would have a height of 245 metres (804 ft). The tower would be, by far, the tallest building in Hamburg and the third tallest in Germany—after the Commerzbank Tower and the Messeturm (both in Frankfurt).