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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 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.
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 ...
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 Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany, is one of Europe's largest art centers for contemporary art and photography. [1] The two historical buildings dating from 1911 to 1913 are notable examples of industrial architecture from the transitional period between Art Nouveau and 20th-century design, with their open steel-and-glass structures. [2]
The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany.It is one of the largest art museums in the country. It consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869 (main building), 1921 (Kuppelsaal) and 1997 (Galerie der Gegenwart), located in the Altstadt district between the Hauptbahnhof (central train station) and the two Alster lakes.
The Chilehaus ([ˈt͡ʃiː.lə.haʊ̯s], "Chile House") is a ten-story office building in Hamburg, Germany.It is located in the Kontorhaus District.It is an exceptional example of the 1920s Brick Expressionism style of architecture.
From a functional and aesthetic point of view, the Kreuzbau building is a successful design - as an individual building. The "communicative central staircase" and the "quality of the trapezoidal floor plan" of the classrooms, which provide a good framework for other forms of group work in addition to frontal teaching, are praised.