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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]
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 Laeiszhalle (German: [ˈlaɪsˌhalə] ⓘ), formerly Musikhalle, is a concert hall in the Neustadt of Hamburg, Germany, and home to the Hamburger Symphoniker and the Philharmoniker Hamburg. The hall is named after the German shipowning company F. Laeisz, founder of the concert venue.
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 ...
Amiens Cathedral floorplan: massive piers support the west end towers; transepts are abbreviated; seven radiating chapels form the chevet reached from the ambulatory. In Western ecclesiastical architecture, a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers, giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.
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