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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.
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).
Johannes Martin Friedrich Grotjan (18 October 1843, in Hamburg – 5 October 1922, in Hamburg) was a German architect.He was responsible for a large number of the municipal buildings constructed in Hamburg during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period of great expansion and rise to global prominence for the city.
Markthalle Hamburg is a convention center located at Klosterwall, Hammerbrook in the city of Hamburg, Germany. It was designed by the architect Fritz Schumacher and built in 1913. The main hall can hold up to 1,000 people.