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PICTURES BY
Aug. Prien/Moka-Studio: p. 25 top right
Bina Engel: p. 7
Contents
Fotofrizz:
p. 10/11, p. 18, p. 20 top, p. 22, p. 24, p. 28, p. 32, p. 36, p. 40, p. 43 top, p. 46, p. 70/71
Get Lifted: p. 25 top left
EDITORIAL
Gärtner+Christ: p. 39
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH/Astoc Architects & Planners: p. 14/15
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ABOUT HAFENCITY
Hosoya Schaefer Architects: Cover bottom right, p. 47 top
Michael Korol:
Inside flap, p. 12/13 top, p. 25 bottom, p. 27 bottom, p. 33 top, p. 37 bottom, p. 43 bottom, p. 45, p. 47 bottom
Moka-Studio: p. 42
Moka-Studio/Unibail-Rodamco: p. 29 all, p. 30
The HafenCity Project
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The Masterplan
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QUARTERS
Nico Thies: p. 66 top
Thomas Hampel/ELBE & FLUT:
Cover all (except bottom right), p. 4/5, p. 6, p. 8/9, p. 13 bottom, p. 16/17, p. 19, p. 20 bottom all, p. 21,
p. 23 all, p. 26, p. 27 top, p. 33 bottom, p. 34 all, p. 35, p. 37 top, p. 38, p. 41 right, p. 44, p. 48/49,
p. 51 all, p. 52, p. 53, p. 54, p. 55 all, p. 56 all, p. 57, p. 58, p. 59, p. 60, p. 61 all, p. 62, p. 63 all,
p. 66 bottom, p. 68/69, p. 74 all
Am Sandtorkai/ Dalmannkai
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Am Sandtorpark/ Grasbrook
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Brooktorkai/ Ericus
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Unibail-Rodamco: p. 31
Strandkai
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Überseequartier
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Elbtorquartier
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FURTHER INFORMATION
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, Osakaallee 11, D-20457 Hamburg
Phone: +49 - 40 - 37 47 26 0, Fax: +49 - 40 - 37 47 26 26
E-mail: [email protected], www.hafencity.com
IMPRINT
Publisher: HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, Osakaallee 11, D-20457 Hamburg
Responsible for content: Susanne Bühler
Editor: André Stark
Translation: Georgina Watkins-Spies
Final editing: Jo Dawes
Design: lab3 mediendesign, Hamburg
Print: Langebartels & Jürgens, Hamburg
25th edition, Hamburg, March 2016, © 2016 All rights reserved
The information contained in this brochure is destined for the general public; there is no claim
to the completeness and accuracy of statements. It must not be used for the risk evaluation of
investment or other business decisions relating to the HafenCity project or to parts thereof.
HafenCity InfoCenter, Exhibition and Café
Am Sandtorkai 30, D-20457 Hamburg, Speicherstadt
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10.00 am – 6.00 pm, closed Mondays
Phone: +49 - 40 - 36 90 17 99, Fax: +49 - 40 - 36 90 18 16
Osaka 9, HafenCity Sustainability Pavilion
Osakaallee 9, D-20457 Hamburg, HafenCity
Phone: +49 - 40 - 37 47 26 60
ESSENTIALS
Q UA R T E R S
PROJECTS
Oberhafen
40
Baakenhafen
42
Elbbrücken
46
ESSENTIALS
Sustainability
50
Cultural Highlights
54
Social Development
58
Public Urban Spaces
60
Infrastructure
64
DATA AND FACTS
68
This publication is printed on environment
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Am Lohsepark
PICTURES BY
Bina Engel: p. 7
Contents
Fotofrizz:
EDITORIAL
05
ABOUT HAFENCITY
Michael Korol:
Moka-Studio: p. 42
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The Masterplan
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QUARTERS
p. 66 bottom, p. 68/69, p. 74 all
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Brooktorkai/ Ericus
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Strandkai
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Überseequartier
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Elbtorquartier
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FURTHER INFORMATION
Phone: +49 - 40 - 37 47 26 0, Fax: +49 - 40 - 37 47 26 26
IMPRINT
Phone: +49 - 40 - 36 90 17 99, Fax: +49 - 40 - 36 90 18 16
Phone: +49 - 40 - 37 47 26 60
ESSENTIALS
Q UA R T E R S
PROJECTS
Oberhafen
40
Baakenhafen
42
Elbbrücken
46
ESSENTIALS
Sustainability
50
Cultural Highlights
54
Social Development
58
Public Urban Spaces
60
Infrastructure
64
DATA AND FACTS
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WWW.HAFENCITY.COM
Am Lohsepark
Jungfernstieg
Binnenalster
Town Hall
Speicherstadt
Historic Warehouse District
Mönckebergstrasse
Prime Shopping Location
Hamburger Kunstmeile
Museum Mile
Main Railway Station
Photo: Fotofrizz
Model: Michael Korol, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH
Status of development
completed
quarters
under construction
projects
sites allocated
subway stations
tender/ready for allocation
site development in preparation
QUARTERS
A
Am Sandtorkai / Dalmannkai
D
Strandkai
G
Am Lohsepark
B
Am Sandtorpark / Grasbrook
E
Überseequartier
H
Oberhafen
C
Brooktorkai / Ericus
F
Elbtorquartier
I
Baakenhafen
J
Elbbrücken
PROJECTS
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Elbphilharmonie
3
on top of Kaispeicher A
2
Traditional Ship Harbor
at Sandtorhafen
Marina
5
at Grasbrookhafen
4
Magellan Terraces
completed
Marco Polo Terraces
7
completed
6
Vasco da Gama Plaza
completed
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School
Primary school at Sandtorpark,
primary school at Baakenhafen and
secondary school at Lohsepark
Cruise terminal/ Hotel
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International Maritime
Museum of Hamburg
10
HafenCity University
12
Sports ground in
HafenCity
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subway station (U4)
at Kaispeicher B
11
denk.mal
Hanover Railroad Station
13
Überseequartier
subway station (U4)
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Elbbrücken subway
station (U4)
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HAFENCITY PROJECTS | EDITORIAL
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EDITORIAL
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HAFENCITY PROJECTS | EDITORIAL
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Development Management and
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH
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arge urban development projects
demand a high degree of collaboration,
as well as the pooling of ideas, conception and realization. In the case of HafenCity, the close linking of public investment (some EUR 2.4 billion, of which EUR
1.5 billion is sourced from land proceeds)
with the essential commitment of ample
private funds (around EUR 8.5 billion),
results in highly complex functions and
the need for tight controls.
In 1997 management of the development of HafenCity was therefore put into
the hands of a port and business development company (GHS) set up for that
purpose (but known as HafenCity Hamburg GmbH since 2004). It is responsible
for the “special city and port assets fund”
which contains sites in HafenCity which
are the property of the City of Hamburg.
Sales of these assets finance a large proportion of public investment in Hafen
City, particularly roads, bridges, squares,
parks, quays and promenades.
In addition to its financing responsibilities, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH also
clears and prepares sites, plans and builds
public spaces and infrastructure, acquires
and contracts real estate developers and
major users, and is in charge of press and
public relations and communication.
At the same time HafenCity Hamburg
GmbH pioneers new ways forward for
urban development relating to urbanity
and sustainability in particular. These sustainability aspects include heating supply,
a home-grown sustainability certification
system for buildings, ecological mobility
concepts, and also flood protection and
the development of an urban structure
that is wholly sustainable. For its task of
integrated urban development, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH benefits from a
wide range of highly professional experts:
engineers, town planners, real estate
developers, economists, cultural theorists, humanities and social scientists,
geographers and open space designers.
HIGH LEVEL OF PUBLIC
CONTROLL ABILIT Y
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH is a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, for which it is
developing HafenCity. Public supervision, cooperation, and the division of
responsibilities are demanding: because
of HafenCity’s significance for the overall development of Hamburg, the new
urban district was declared a priority
area in 2006. For this reason HafenCity
development is not supervised by Hamburg-Mitte district authority, but managed at city level. The HafenCity Hamburg GmbH supervisory board – chaired
by the first mayor – is made up of members of the city senate.
Sales and options (with planning obligations) on land purchases have to be
approved by the Land Commission; zoning plans are processed in the Ministry of
Editorial
Urban Development and Housing by the
HafenCity task force and then put before
the Commission of Urban Development
and for consultation and approval (both
bodies consist mainly of parliamentary
and local government representatives).
Building permits for HafenCity are handled by the ministry.
Juries for urban planning and open
space competitions and for competitions
for individual buildings comprise representatives of the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing (chief planning
officer), the district council, HafenCity
Hamburg GmbH and several politicians
(from Mitte district or the city parliament) as well as private developers and
independent architects.
By concentrating non-official functions
in a dedicated development company of
its own, Hamburg can ensure the efficiency and quality of the urban development
project, yet through intensive division
of labor and control also retain a high
degree of public accountability.
NEW FIELDS OF ACTIVIT Y
Today HafenCity Hamburg GmbH has
additional new responsibilities. Through
its subsidiary, Billebogen Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (BBEG) it is responsible
for managing the development of a 72 ha
area known as Billebogen, adjoining
HafenCity to the northeast. This site comprises both built and undeveloped areas
and includes the new intermodal rail station. During the coming 20 years a quality
urban development zone on the fringes
of HafenCity will emerge – comprising
mainly trade and industrial workplaces in
a densely built urban structure (in view
of the site’s consistently high exposure to
noise) – generating important impulses
for the whole of eastern Hamburg and
the inner city. As well as reinforcing the
urban qualities of an inner city entryway
crisscrossed by transport routes, it will
also generate new jobs (many of them in
vertically aligned spaces).
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nce again the momentum of development throughout HafenCity will
continue unabated in 2016 and 2017.
Starting in the west, where the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall is to be opened
in January 2017, continuing to Strandkai
where 500 apartments for rental and
private purchase in a premium location
will be under construction on three plots
from the end of 2016 or early 2017. Then
in the center the most varied range of
mixed-use building projects is also taking
shape. One example is the Campus Tower
which combines office concepts for startups and entrepreneurs with spaces for
academic institutions, residing alongside
rental and privately financed apartments
– another example is a hotel project and
housing for students right on Lohsepark.
Development obligations will penetrate
deep into eastern HafenCity, to Baakenhafen, where the focus of spatial change
in the next five years will be on development of the neighborhood center. This
year a total 156,000 sqm gross floor area
(GFA) will go into construction; exclusive
options are expected to be granted on
about another 193,000 sqm, of which
around 113,000 sqm will be mainly residential and 80,000 sqm GFA probably for
commercial use.
In 2017, at the latest, construction work
will be starting on southern Überseequartier, probably Europe’s most ambitious mixed-use, commercially biased real
estate project. Providing 260,000 sqm
GFA, it will also be the most metropolitan and most intensively visited part of
HafenCity, with an expected 50,000 visitors and customers per day, shopping,
restaurants, residences, entertainment
and a vertically structured cruise passenger terminal, with hotels and offices.
Projects going into construction in
2016 alone, or in the final stages of planning, embody the complete spectrum of
sophisticated urban development, establishing a new urban space along 3.1 km
of the Elbe from the Elbphilharmonie
through to the Elbe bridges whose com-
position is well-nigh accomplished and
will be completed over the next ten years
in line with the highest possible international standards.
Meanwhile, Elbbrücken quarter, a very
densely built business and residential
location, begins to assume its contours
as HafenCity’s second urban center after
Überseequartier. Around 58 percent of
the space is foreseen for office use and
15 percent for restaurants bars and special uses – with a potential 13,000 jobs;
around 1,000 apartments are also scheduled. Development will begin in 2016
with the first tenders invited and options
granted.
Yet HafenCity is not only leaping forward in a construction sense; its green,
social and innovative qualities are also
developing strongly. In 2016, with the
opening of the central Lohsepark, Hafen
City will become an intense experience,
with blue water qualities and green, leafy
urban spaces. At the same time, Baakenpark, the new promontory in Baakenhafen, is gaining physical contours. With
the introduction of a specially developed
neighborhood management structure
and a sustainable mobility concept for a
minimum of 3,000 households in eastern
HafenCity, a series of innovative steps are
being taken toward the long-term integration of residents and local businesses,
and in developing ecological mobility.
After only 15 years of construction,
HafenCity has become an urban district with numerous shops and restaurants, hotels and cultural institutions,
and a rising number of visitors. It is now
home to about 2,500 people, more than
5,000 students use the various academic
establishments, and more than 11,000
employees come to work in more than
500 companies. Thus today HafenCity is
already regarded, even internationally,
as a model for successful urban, sustainable and innovative city development,
simultaneously taking into consideration
local requirements and global exigencies. It still has a good way to go until
Prof. Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg,
Chief Executive
realization is completed, most probably
between 2025 and 2030. We are happy
to be receiving so much support from so
many in upholding the high ambitions of
HafenCity development.
Your
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HAFENCITY PROJECTS | ABOUT HAFENCITY
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ABOUT
HAFENCIT Y
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HafenCity will enlarge Hamburg’s city area by 40 percent. A whole new city district is emerging south of the historic Speicherstadt,
Hamburg is growing here: HafenCity – Europe’s largest
inner-city development project – is a blueprint for a European city on the waterfront
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n developing a new city area along the
Elbe, Hamburg is setting new standards – at least in Europe. On an area of
157 ha, a lively city with a maritime air
is taking shape, bringing together workplace and residential uses, culture and
leisure, tourism and retail facilities –
quite unlike downtowns dominated by
nothing but offices and shops. What sets
it apart from other major international
urban waterside development projects
is the area’s very central location and
the high expectations of quality reflected, for instance, in its fine-grained mix
of uses, standards of urbanity and ecological sustainability, and its innovative
development process. The intensive
interaction between land and water can
also be regarded as unique, for HafenCity
is neither surrounded by dikes, nor cut
off from the water. With the exception
of the quays and promenades, the whole
area will be raised to between 8 and 9 m
above sea level. The concept of building
on artificial compacted mounds (warfts)
lends an area once dominated by port
and industrial uses a new, characteristic
topography, retaining access to the water
and the typical port atmosphere, while
guaranteeing protection from floods.
DEFINITION OF A
BR AND NEW
URBAN DISTRICT
The task in hand is to define a new downtown in both urban planning and architectural terms. Since the site of HafenCity
was once largely occupied by single-story
sheds and, with the exception of Oberhafen quarter, few existing buildings
could be retained or were worth preserving, HafenCity consists almost exclusively
of new buildings. Altogether more than
2.32 million sqm gross floor area (GFA) is
to be constructed. Nearly 7,000 residential units for over 12,000 residents are
being built, as well as business premises
offering in excess of 45,000 job opportunities, plus educational institutions,
restaurants and bars, retail, cultural and
leisure amenities, with parks, plazas and
promenades.
The urban planning and architectural
reinterpretation of the place, however,
centers on established structures. Its
milieu is informed by the Speicherstadt,
port structures, a few existing buildings
and, importantly, its horizontal nature
and the visual axes of the inner city. The
use of red clinker brick opposite the Speicherstadt and in the center of HafenCity
is another defining element.
DEVELOPMENT FROM
WEST TO EAST
HafenCity is being developed from
west to east and from north to south –
57 projects are completed and another
50 under construction or in the planning
stage; deals through sale of land or exclusive options have been closed on around
1.23 million sqm GFA. In the meantime,
HafenCity has established its popularity
as a place to live and work. The new district’s urbanity is already very noticeable
in the western neighborhoods. Well over
1,500 living spaces have been completed;
more than 500 companies have moved
into HafenCity. In 2016, Marquard & Bahls
and Gebr. Heinemann are among companies either building anew or enlarging their present premises in HafenCity,
while the new headquarters of Engel &
Völkers is close to completion.
In 2009, Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai
led the way as the first completed neighborhood in HafenCity’s development. It
is also the site of the Elbphilharmonie
Concert Hall, designed by Herzog & de
Meuron, which sits atop the historic Kaispeicher A warehouse building. The new
Hamburg landmark accommodating two
concert auditoria, a five-star hotel and
around 45 apartments, is scheduled to
open to audiences in January 2017 in the
wake of considerable delays. Close by,
completion of the second large neighborhood, Am Sandtorpark/Grasbrook,
with an urban mix of homes, workplaces, culture, leisure, tourism and commerce (photo shows status in summer 2015)
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Brooktorkai/Ericus
Am Lohsepark
Am Sandtorkai/
Dalmannkai
Am Sandtorpark/
Grasbrook
Überseequartier
Strandkai
Oberhafen
Elbtorquartier
Baakenhafen
Elbbrücken
HafenCity is made up of ten very different neighborhoods
popular with many young families, followed at the beginning of 2011. A primary school with nursery and kindergarten
offering all-day supervision opened in
2009. In 2013, popular Grasbrook park
was opened, with its play and leisure
facilities for children and grown-ups –
primary school kids were also involved in
the design. Meanwhile, on Strandkai to
the south, the first buildings completed
there in 2009, Unilever headquarters and
the Marco Polo Tower, an ensemble of
office building and residential multistory, have garnered multiple awards. At the
same time, the first open spaces directly adjoining the River Elbe were opened
up. On the site to the east, Engel & Völkers’ new corporate head office, incorporating residential construction, will
be ready by 2017, while building works
for the last large unbuilt site in western
HafenCity, western Strandkai, get under
way at the end of 2016/early 2017. The
ensemble will include two towers and
several seven-story buildings providing
nearly 500 apartments. Finished in 2011,
Brooktorkai/Ericus neighborhood is the
location of the two largest office users in
HafenCity, DNV Germanischer Lloyd and
the Spiegel group.
Überseequartier, the commercial heart
of HafenCity, already has metropolitan flair. The northern section, with its
more than 500 residents also boasts
many shops and services along Überseeboulevard and is popular for corporate
premises. The U4 subway started regular services to Überseequartier station
in December 2012. And while work on
converting the former harbor master’s
office, Altes Hafenamt, was concluded
successfully in February 2016, development of the last remaining unbuilt site
in the northern part of the neighborhood
between Sandtorkai and Tokiostrasse has
started. A crucial milestone in the ongoing development of southern Überseequartier came in December 2014 when
Unibail-Rodamco assumed responsibility
for its continuing overall development
and realization. The utilization concept
and urban structure plans are being thoroughly reworked, with new architectural
designs for all 11 buildings. By 2021 the site
will be transformed into a largely open,
non-air-conditioned urban shopping
district, protected against the weather,
intermingled with public amenities such
as the cruise center, as well as residential
uses and hotels.
MAKING FOR NEW SHORES
In Elbtorquartier, where the International Maritime Museum opened in 2008
in the historic Kaispeicher B warehouse
building and which has been home to
the Ecumenical Forum since 2012, around
2,500 students moved into the new
HafenCity University (HCU) building on
the Elbe embankment in April 2014. Since
August 2013, U4 subway services have
been serving HCU’s dedicated subway
stop, while the flood-protected arcades
of the Elbe Arcades and the pier skirting
Magdeburger Hafen basin have become a
popular meeting place. Adjacent to HCU,
the Freeport, Watermark and Shipyard
ensemble of buildings will be finished by
2017, comprising a 70-meter office buil
ding, and two further buildings, including
around 46 residences.
And in Am Lohsepark neighborhood, as
oil corporation Marquard & Bahls moves
into its new corporate headquarters on
Shanghaiallee in spring 2016, the residential scene on Lohsepark takes on concrete
form. The first large residential building to be completed, right on the park,
offers not only subsidized and privately
financed homes, but also an inclusive residential community, joint building ventures, several kindergartens, a medical
center, and commercial ground-floor uses
such as a 3-star restaurant. Large parts of
Lohsepark itself – a ribbon of green running from Ericusspitze down to the River
Elbe - are already open. Overall completion is planned for summer 2016.
Meanwhile, in Oberhafen, decisions on
the new cultural and creative users for its
6,000 sqm of former warehousing space
are in progress and regular cultural events
are already taking place. Over in Baakenhafen, the densely mixed intensive residential and recreational uses, green spaces, workplaces and education and leisure
center are taking shape. The first building
project got under way in summer 2015.
The architectural designs for more than
1,000 apartments are decided and building work in the center of the quarter
kicked off already with a total 436 apartments. At the same time, tenders are
being invited for the next nine site units.
Lastly, at Elbbrücken with the announcement of the winning design in the urban
planning competition in fall 2015, all
planning is now finalized for HafenCity,
at least in terms of urban design.
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH pulls the
strings, overseeing all activities as the
city’s manager of development, property owner and developer of infrastructure. Since October 1, 2006, HafenCity
has had so-called priority area status: all
zoning plans are discussed by the Commission for Urban Development set up
for this purpose, representing all political parties in Hamburg’s City Parliament.
Building permissions are granted by the
Urban Development and Housing Ministry. Since the aim is to set international
standards for conceptual and architectural quality, it is very important to attract
developers and users willing to cooperate
in setting high quality benchmarks and
in treading innovative paths. Tenders are
invited for plots scheduled for residential
use; the competition result is decisive. It
is not the highest bid that succeeds – the
crucial factor for awarding the contract
is the quality of the use concepts submitted. Sites for office buildings, on the
other hand, are not generally processed
this way. Instead, companies planning to
staff 60 to 70 percent of a building or site
for their own purposes can apply to Hafen
City Hamburg GmbH.
However, whatever the type of land use,
the necessary ratification by the Land
Commission is followed by an exclusive
option period with an obligation to plan.
Then the builder/user, in agreement
with the Ministry and HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, has to proceed in staging
an architectural competition and preparing for building approval, and may also
commission site surveys. Throughout this
process, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, the
authorities and the buyer remain in constant dialog. The advantage of this process for the developer is that financing
of the purchase price is postponed until
after the building permit is granted (and
the purchase made); until then it has adequate time to hone the quality of its product, secure finance and perhaps acquire
additional users. At the same time the city
retains its ability to safeguard the building’s quality by intervening during the
development process which continues for
one and a half years after award of the
option. This ensures that the use concepts
and time schedules originally submitted
will be adhered to, since the purchase
cannot go through until the building
permit is received. In short: this encourages cooperative, exacting and reliable
developer behavior – with both city and
developer reducing risks and costs, optimizing quality. For Hamburg, HafenCity is
not first and foremost a major real estate
project in which individual projects need
to be realized as quickly and efficiently as
possible – it is the vehicle for achieving
exemplary urban quality and defining the
city anew for the 21st century.
The cityscape around the Traditional Ship Harbor is shaped by the intensive interplay between water and land
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The Foundation of HafenCity: the Masterplan
HafenCity is emerging as a city: the almost completed west already has an urban feel; the center is moving toward
completion, while building works in the east are under way
H
afenCity is among the most outstanding urban development projects
on the waterfront anywhere. Based on
a sophisticated concept, it is expanding
the area of Hamburg City by 40 percent.
It also has spin-off effects for the existing
city center, the whole of the Hanseatic
city state with its 1.8 million inhabitants
and its surrounding metropolitan region
with a population of some five million.
Hamburg’s identity as a maritime port
city will be underscored in the process
and HafenCity itself serve as a blueprint
for the development of the European city
of the 21st century. It is already regarded
as a model for major international urban
development projects, although its development time scale continues through to
2025.
NEW CORE INNER
CIT Y GROWS
Development of HafenCity is based
essentially on a Masterplan approved
by the Hamburg Senate on February 29,
2000, which was developed further for
the eastern section of HafenCity after
wide-ranging public discussions in 2010.
For the previous ten years the Masterplan,
with its concept for an urban horizontal
and vertical mix of uses and its flexible
basic framework of a variety of city quarters, served as a good point of departure
for development of old port sites south of
the city center. However it initially lacked
an adequately detailed planning basis for
the three eastern neighborhoods, Oberhafen, Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken.
What is more, circumstances also
changed during the first decade. Initially,
eastern HafenCity was regarded almost
as suburban, yet in the meantime – partly due to new subway connections – it
already counts as part of the new city
core. Redefinition of the Masterplan was
led by HafenCity Hamburg GmbH in conjunction with the Hamburg Urban Development and Housing Ministry as well as
the principal authors of the original Masterplan, Kees Christiaanse, with ASTOC.
At the same time there was intensive
public discussion, with a program of more
than 40 events. Since then the reworked
With the reworking 2010 of the urban planning
concept of the Masterplan for eastern HafenCity,
the new district as a whole is taking shape,
continuing the success story of the western
neighborhoods right through to the Elbbrücken
bridges
draft has been honed increasingly in further phases (urban design competitions,
open space competitions, zoning plans
and architectural competitions by private
building companies).
EASTERN DISTRICTS
WITH DISTINCT
IDENTITIES
Nevertheless, compared with western
and central HafenCity, the three eastern
neighborhoods (Oberhafen, Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken) are more isolated
and less integrated into the existing city.
Their proximity to transport routes also
calls for special noise protection planning.
But this also creates opportunities to give
the eastern neighborhoods individuality: Am Baakenhafen will be a neighborhood focusing on living and for leisure,
with several thousand job opportunities;
Oberhafen will become the creative and
cultural quarter, and Elbbrücken an urban
location for business and housing.
The revision of the Masterplan resulted in a marked increase of useable area
throughout HafenCity. Because of the
intense building density and thanks to
the relocation of businesses formerly
situated in the port area, the total area
realizable has been increased from 1.5
million sqm of gross floor area (GFA) to
2.32 million sqm GFA. Partial infilling of
the eastern end of Baakenhafen harbor
basin also boosts overall land area from
123 to 127 ha.
MANY MORE HOMES
TO BE BUILT
Reworking of the Masterplan also
meant that the number of homes that
can be built is much higher. Since around
3,000 housing units will be built in Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken, the total number of homes in HafenCity increased from
5,500 to 6,000–7,000. As a result joint
building ventures now also receive more
consideration in site tenders and since
2011 one third of residential space developed is publicly subsidized. An additional
primary school, two secondary schools,
as well as several more kindergartens will
also enhance HafenCity’s attractions as
a place for families to live. The number
of potential jobs also rises markedly, with
the increase from 40,000 to 45,000 primarily generated in leisure, retail, catering and hotels.
The leafy character of HafenCity was
also intensified. Squares, small and large,
linked together will underline urban spatial integration. Lohsepark, HafenCity’s
central public park, extends down to the
River Elbe. In the south, an Elbe promenade may encourage people to stroll on to
Entenwerder island, and Baakenpark, an
artificial green play and leisure peninsula,
will enhance Baakenhafen neighborhood.
Public open spaces throughout HafenCity now cover an area of more than 28 ha,
compared with the initially planned 24 ha
(not counting publicly accessible private
areas), while the total length of shoreline
extends from almost 10 to 10.5 km.
The fact that eastern HafenCity is
shaped by major highways does lead to
high noise exposure in the north and east,
however. Thus intelligent urban planning
and technical concepts are needed to
enhance these locations: the main eastern traffic artery Versmannstrasse will
be lined primarily with office buildings
turning their broad backs toward the
road to provide noise-protected areas
to the southern side. The semi-enclosed
residential ensembles will also form inner
courtyards, providing shelter for neighborly coexistence.
The high ecological standards of the
western and central neighborhoods will
also actually be bettered in the east. As
well as establishing an innovative heating
energy concept, nearly all buildings will
meet the demanding criteria for the gold
HafenCity Ecolabel. At the same time,
flexible integrated mobility structures
will be developed ecologically, with good
public subway and bus services, charging
infrastructure for electric vehicles, car
pool systems overlapping neighborhood
boundaries featuring electric mobility,
e-bikes, pedelecs and other micro electric
vehicles.
The reworking of the Masterplan has
thus further expanded and reinforced
HafenCity’s function as a city. At the same
time, the urban development area has
been thought through to its easternmost
point, to the highest standards.
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HAFENCITY PROJECTS | QUARTERS
HAFENCIT Y
QUARTERS
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AM SANDTORKAI / DALMANNKAI
Fine-grained and Alive: HafenCity’s First Neighborhood
Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai in northwest HafenCity was the first quarter to be completed
S
till in very good shape at 150 years old:
the opening of Sandtorhafen, the city’s
first artificially created harbor basin, on
August 11, 1866, marked the beginning of
the modern Port of Hamburg. However,
break-bulk cargo belongs to yesteryear
here and today a vibrant waterside neighborhood forms the centerpiece of HafenCity’s first completed quarter. Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai was finished in spring
2009, following six years of construction.
Today, the adjacent pontoons of the Traditional Ship Harbor form a floating plaza
providing moorings for up to 30 historic
vessels and is used by residents, visitors
and people working locally for relaxation
or a stroll.
To the north of the harbor is Sandtorkai,
bordering the listed Speicherstadt on its
other side. To the south are Dalmannkai
promontory and Grasbrookhafen harbor.
The views from the eight buildings on
Sandtorkai and the 15 buildings on Dalmannkai encompass the city center, as
well as the River Elbe.
OPEN, MULTIDIMENSIONAL
TOPOGR APHY
The urban spaces mainly extend over
two levels. All buildings and roads are
built on artificially raised, flood-protected bases at around 8 m above sea level,
but embankment promenades remain at
4–5.5 m above sea level. The difference
in height is particularly noticeable to the
north of Sandtorkai. There unusually, in
consideration of the adjacent Speicherstadt, the road (Am Sandtorkai) lies at
the low level of the Speicherstadt, and the
newly built basement foundations on the
other side resemble a wall.
And while the Traditional Ship Harbor’s
pontoons effectively form a third level on
the water, which rises and falls twice daily
with the tide by more than 3 m, the opening of the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall
plaza in November 2016 adds a fourth
level: at a height of 37 m, this public spaces offers spectacular views of HafenCity
and the Elbe. Incidentally: until its opening in January 2017, the Elbphilharmonie
remains the only building in the neighborhood still under construction.
Right in front of it, the new Mahatma
Gandhi bridge, opened in January 2016
and linking Sandtorkai and Am Kaiserkai, offers pedestrians a 5 m wide sidewalk. There is still plenty of width in the
8.5 m wide street area for vehicles to stop
briefly to pick up or drop off concertgoers without holding up the traffic flow.
At the same time the rebuilt bridge is a
visible enhancement to the walkway
running between Landungsbrücken and
HafenCity.
Multi-dimensional typical topography
continues on the Magellan and Marco
Polo Terraces, the largest squares in the
locality and in the whole of HafenCity:
like an amphitheater, the 5,600 sqm of
the Magellan Terraces descend in steps to
the water. The 7,800 sqm Marco Polo Terraces with their grass islands and wooden
decking invite passersby to take a break
under the trees. Vasco da Gama Plaza,
a smaller neighborhood square nearby,
also offers a basketball court.
The eclecticism of the quarter is mirrored in the architecture: Dalmannkai’s 15 buildings were planned or built by 27 different developers and 26 firms of architects
The embankment promenades of Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai are a popular place to take a walk. Whereas all buildings are constructed on artificially compacted
foundations at around 8 m above sea level, the waterside promenades remain at 4–5.5 m above sea level
While almost all plazas and promenades throughout western HafenCity
were planned by EMBT of Barcelona,
landscaping of basements and promenades on Sandtorkai was designed by
BHF Landschaftsarchitekten (Kiel). The
architecture itself reflects the variety in
the quarter: on Dalmannkai alone, the 15
buildings were realized by 27 developers
and 26 firms of architects, to ensure adequate diversity.
A VARIET Y OF LIFEST YLES
SIDE BY SIDE
Lifestyles of residents are as disparate
as the architecture: around 1,000 people live and work in the quarter. Young
working singles and families live side by
side with older couples or seniors whose
children have left home. They take part in
sport and cultural clubs and mix socially
through associations such as HafenCity
Netzwerk e.V. This socially differentiated structure is also the result of a call for
expressions of interest procedure: as of
2003, sites for housing no longer go to the
highest bidder. Instead the developer with
the best use concept is given an exclusive
option on the property at a previously
agreed price. This means that many rental
or owned apartments are affordable for
mid-income earners, while some are in the
luxury segment. Much more reasonably
priced living accommodation was realized
through building cooperatives and three
joint building ventures. As well as the residents, employees of the approximately
50 businesses also influence the quarter’s
atmosphere. Most are modern services
businesses in the media and logistics sectors. Residents, office workers and visitors
are continually in contact with each other
in the shops, cafés, restaurants, galleries
and bars occupying the almost 6,500 sqm
of ground floor space distributed through
most of the buildings.
It was in this neighborhood. Sandtorkai/
Dalmannkai that a major project first succeeded in functionally integrating public
amenities into ground floors on a larger scale. The condition in sale contracts
and zoning plans requiring 5 m ceilings
throughout ground floors of buildings
here, the reduced prices for ground floor
space and the developer’s obligation to
seek corresponding users pave the way
for a growing vitality that completion of
the Elbphilharmonie will further. Thus
the diversity of caterers and retailers that
have already set up shop in the quarter,
combined with the various services and
cultural uses, offer plenty of choice.
Of course the principle of a dense mix
of uses also presents challenges which
demand innovative solutions. To safeguard areas of privacy for residents, building ensembles on southern Dalmannkai
are grouped around internal courtyards
opening toward the south, allowing unobstructed views of Grasbrookhafen harbor
and the river, but which are difficult to see
into from the lower-lying promenade. It is
not incongruous that the private and public exist side by side in Am Sandtorpark/
Dalmannkai – quite the contrary: their
coexistence is a definite sign of quality,
in this neighborhood and the whole of
HafenCity.
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area: 10.9 ha
Total GFA: 261,000 sqm
 Jobs and commercial uses
Jobs: approx. 2,700
Uses: corporate, offices,
retail, catering
 Homes
746 (plus 43 in the
Elbphilharmonie)
 Special institutions
Elbphilharmonie
Traditional Ship Harbor
 Development timeframe
2003 to 2009
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AM SANDTORPARK / GRASBROOK
Green and Metropolitan at the Same Time
With its two leafy parks, Am Sandtorpark/Grasbrook neighborhood offers ideal conditions to residents,
employees of surrounding companies and Katharinenschule primary pupils alike
A
m Sandtorpark/Grasbrook is the second large neighborhood to be all but
completed. This area, extending from
Sandtorhafen harbor in the west to
Überseequartier in the east, with its primary school and family homes around
Grasbrook park, is a haven of neighborly
life. The small, yet popular Sandtorpark,
around which many of the buildings
cluster, is a key local element setting the
urban scene. HafenCity’s first park was
inaugurated with a neighborhood street
party in April 2011. Landscaping of the
green play areas is dominated by lawns
and hillocks. By continuing the main
design elements of the Magellan Terraces (such as the paving) through to here,
architects EMBT of Barcelona, winners of
the open space landscaping concept for
western HafenCity, have successfully and
visibly drawn together the various areas.
Since August 2013, the 7,100 sqm Grasbrookpark was also completed. Popular
way beyond HafenCity, this large grassy
play park with its many play and recreational features for children and adults
forms the southern interface to Strandkai quarter.
FAMILY FRIENDLY
HOUSING
Classes at HafenCity’s Katharinenschule
school on Sandtorpark started at an early
stage, in August 2009. School activities
for 450 children overall also include kindergarten, after-school care or various
types of all-day supervision. The integrated sports hall is intensively used after
school as well, e.g. by Störtebeker sports
club or sports groups from local companies. The school building, designed by
architects Spengler & Wiescholek, which
also houses 30 apartments, is one of the
few in Germany to integrate a mix of uses,
as well as having most of its play area on
the roof. The ecological building also carries the gold HafenCity Ecolabel. Right
next to Katharinenschule school live the
new occupants of the Hafenliebe joint
building venture in their 55 family-friendly homes. Another 68 apartments were
subsequently realized in the Hofquartier
project.
The emphasis of the neighborhood’s
final project, construction of the building
to the north of Grasbrookpark, is also residential. Under construction since the end
of 2015 to plans by BKK-3 architects (Vien-
Urban yet neighborly: attractive living in an
international business district
Living and working on Sandtorpark: four buildings designed by Pritzker laureate Richard Meier are grouped around the International Coffee Plaza. On the right,
one of Germany’s few school building with mixed uses – Katharinenschule
na) are 135 apartments, a kindergarten as
well as other units for an organic restaurant and retail uses. The apartments are a
mix of cooperative and subsidized homes,
alongside ateliers and student accommodation. Completion of the building is
planned for spring 2018.
SANDTORPARK:
CORPOR ATE LOCATION
Overall the neighborhood is highly international and has attracted many companies. In the Hamburg-America-Center
designed by renowned US architect Richard Meier, the Amerikazentrum Hamburg
e.V. society offers a program of varied cultural events. The largest area of space in
the office building bordering Sandtorpark
has been occupied since fall 2011 by the
Buss group’s offices.
The three buildings of the adjacent International Coffee Plaza were also conceived
by Pritzker prizewinner Meier. The plaza
was developed by the Neumann family,
whose eponymous group of companies
occupies the 13-story Ellipse tower, one of
the neighborhood’s architectonic landmarks, with the German headquarters of
the Eukor shipping line. In mid-2013, the
major Korean shipping line Hanjin Shipping moved into the building opposite.
Art dealer Gregor Bröcker opened two
galleries on the ground floor at the beginning of 2015.
OWN FOCUS ON
SUSTAINABILIT Y
Right on Sandtorpark two other large
buildings also offer space for companies: on the northern side, the 16,000
sqm SKAI building, built in 2009, with its
eye-catching façade of copper elements,
was designed by the Hamburg firm, Böge
Lindner architects. Then to Sandtorpark’s
south is the Centurion Commercial Center (14,600 sqm GFA), holder of the gold
HafenCity Ecolabel, in which, apart from
the Dahler & Company group, most businesses are of small and medium size, with
retailers and catering on the ground floor.
Further south, Kühne Logistics University and the Medical School Hamburg
moved into the former SAP building on
Grosser Grasbrook in fall 2013. Right next
door is logistics group Kühne + Nagel,
which relocated its headquarters here in
2006.
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area: 5.7 ha
Jobs: approx. 2,600
Uses: offices, education,
social institutions, retail,
catering
 Homes
278
Special institutions
Sandtorpark, Grasbrookpark,
Katharinenschule (all-day
supervision with after-school care)
Kühne Logistics University (KLU)
Medical School Hamburg (MSH)
Hamburg-America-Center
Thermal power plant (district heating)
2003 to 2017
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BROOKTORKAI / ERICUS
Corporate Location in the Speicherstadt
Brooktorkai/Ericus’ position at the interfaces of both Speicherstadt and existing city center makes it a good corporate location
T
he Brooktorkai/Ericus neighborhood
has a really maritime feel: it is framed
by the historic brick buildings of the Speicherstadt, by Brooktorhafen basin, and
the water passage linking Holländischbrookfleet canal. Also characteristic of
Brooktorkai is its meandering building
structure, punctuated and loosened up
by three nine-story towers. The Speicherstadt, whose colors are echoed in the redbrick facings, is clearly referenced here.
Urban planning for Brooktorkai (less
Ericusspitze) stemmed from Hamburg
architects gmp – Gerkan, Marg und Partner, while the winning architectural concepts for the buildings here came from
gmp, as well as Jan Störmer Architekten
(Hamburg) and Antonio Citterio and
Partners (Milan).
Traffic noise and the narrow layout of
the neighborhood mean that, unusually,
the residential element in this quarter is
of little significance. Although one of the
three towers in the ensemble does have
30 apartments with views of Lohsepark,
the quarter is primarily an important location for businesses. The move of 1,600
employees of Germanischer Lloyd into
their 54,000 sqm GFA Brooktorkai office
here in March 2010 was the biggest ever
corporate relocation into HafenCity. In
addition, the International School of Management (ISM) right next door has been
preparing students for future careers in
international business since 2010.
The mainly red-brick clinker façades
in Brooktorhafen clearly reference the
historic Speicherstadt, the primary
influence on the milieu of the quarter
MAJOR PUBLISHING
HOUSE MARKS
ENTRY TO HAFENCIT Y
The most conspicuous buildings on Ericusspitze, the northeastern entrance to
HafenCity, are the Spiegel group’s publishing house and the Ericus Contor building. In September 2011, the noted media
group transferred its business activities into a new building here of around
30,000 sqm gross floor area (GFA), which
was awarded the HafenCity gold Ecolabel
in 2012. The publishing house and Ericus
Contor (20,000 sqm GFA) with their pale
façades and massive shared plinth were
planned by Henning Larsen Architects
(Copenhagen). In closely referencing the
Speicherstadt as well as the Elbphilhar-
The Spiegel publishing house and Ericus Contor form the central entry to HafenCity; the “window” in the façade makes a grand urban statement. DNV GL has its
head office in the adjoining meandering structure on Brooktorkai
The promenades and open spaces along Brooktorhafen embankment and on Ericusspitze are an invitation to take a break
monie Concert Hall, the architectural
concept also rightly pays tribute to the
location’s significant urban planning role
as the entrée to HafenCity.
FROM ERICUSSPITZE
TO THE ELBE
Several bridges cross Brooktorhafen
harbor. Ericus bridge, renovated since
June 2014, was originally built in 1870 as
a swing bridge for rail traffic. Now it links
the neighborhood with Lohsepark, while
Shanghaibrücke road bridge, designed by
Dietmar Feichtinger (Paris, Vienna), creates additional open space. The bridge,
which seems more like a square, almost
as wide as it is long, offers generous space
for pedestrians and cyclists.
Brooktorpromenade leads under the
bridge, past Brooktorhafen basin, to Dar es
Salaam square, inaugurated in June 2011.
On the way the route also traverses the
León bridge, another Dietmar Feichtinger design, this time for pedestrians
only. Finally the promenade follows the
embankment of Magdeburger Hafen –
taking in Störtebeker Ufer, Busanbrücke
bridge and Elbtorpromenade – toward
HafenCity University (HCU) and Baakenhafen. With Buenos Aires quay completed since late summer 2014, a road-crossing-free link now runs from Ericusspitze
down to the Elbe, highlighting once again
how bridges combined with promenades
form the backbone of HafenCity’s closeknit pedestrian infrastructure on the
waterside, representing a special quality
of the new cityscape.
CHANGING LEVELS
WES & Partner Landschaftsarchitekten
(Hamburg) was responsible for the design
of other open spaces on Brooktorkai dock
and Ericusspitze. This included a 30 m
long stone sofa on Brooktorkaipromenade offering views of the harbor basin.
A spacious flight of steps at Ericusspitze
invites a change of level – steps for sitting
or walking lead onto a plaza with sweeping views over the Ericus canal and Oberhafen harbor basin.
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area: 4 ha
Jobs: approx. 3,350
Uses: offices, education,
retail, catering
 Homes
30
2007 to end 2011
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STRANDKAI
Prime Location: Places to Live and Work by the Water
Surrounded by water and parks, Strandkai offers spectacular views, prime locations for homes and outstanding office buildings such as Unilever headquarters
S
een from the Elbe bridges, Strandkai
quarter is a prominent element in
Hamburg’s southern city silhouette. Its
hybrid perimeter blocks are structured
in six to seven-story building ensembles
punctuated by high tower tops and individual towers, stand-alone or integrated.
These high-points also provide spectacular views: downstream along the River
Elbe, to the south across the port, to the
north and west over Grasbrook harbor,
HafenCity and the city center. Böge Lind-
ner architects (Hamburg) conceived the
urban design framework for the ten building plots. The south-eastern end of the
neighborhood mainly comprises office
space for modern service businesses –
most of the housing, on the other hand,
is being built at Grasbrookpark, in nearby
Überseequartier and on the eye-catching
tip of the promontory. This is reserved
exclusively for living space, apart from
ground floors.
OUTSTANDING
SUSTAINABILIT Y
The first building to be completed to the
south of the Marco Polo Terraces was an
ensemble by Behnisch Architekten (Stuttgart), consisting of an office building and a
residential tower. The 25,000 sqm gross
floor area (GFA) office building (59) has
been in use since summer 2009 by consumer goods group Unilever for the 1,200
employees of its German-speaking markets organization. The building’s sustainability credentials are impressive: in 2011 it
was the first office building to be awarded
the gold HafenCity Ecolabel. The interior of
the multi-award-winning Unilever office
building features an atrium flooded with
natural light, open-plan offices and horizontally staggered work stations. A public
urban space with shops runs through the
ground floor, linking the Marco Polo Terraces to the newly landscaped Elbe waterfront promenade, where the Elbterrassen
steps make the riverfront accessible.
MARCO POLO TOWER
WINS REAL ESTATE
“OSCAR”
Up to now, Strandkai had little more to show than the Unilever building and the Marco Polo Tower. Now a
total of 500 residences are being erected on three sites along the quay
Like the Unilever headquarters building,
the Marco Polo Tower (58) next door, with
some 60 apartments, has also won multiple awards. In 2010, the residential tower
won the real estate “Oscar”, the MIPIM
award, in the residential developments
category. The previous year it was named
best building in the European Property
Awards. The whole ensemble has become
a landmark, with the around 60 m high
tower and its staggered stories visible
from far away, as striking as the Unilever
building with its conspicuous façade.
Adjoining it to the east, Quantum Projektentwicklung GmbH and Engel &
Völkers Development GmbH are building
new headquarters for Engel & Völkers
Strandkai offers the best views and the best
locations for residences and offices. Construction
is under way on plot 60 (photo shows especially
deep excavation pit for four lower stories) and
should start on the quay (right) during this year
(60) which will house the Engel & Völkers Akademie and an exhibition space, as
well as offices. A residential tower and
additionally around 1,200 sqm for commercial use are also being built, some of
which will also be occupied by Engel &
Völkers, while a third building will contain
more apartments and some 540 sqm of
commercial premises. Around half of the
21,000 GFA to be created is thus designated for about 100 apartments and for
public amenities. The ensemble, which
was designed by the US architect, Pritzker
prizewinner Richard Meier, will assume
the role of an architectonic landmark. The
15-story tower across from Grasbrookpark
in particular will stand out from a considerable distance away. Completion is
planned by the end of 2017.
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Further to the east, the current Cruise
Center HafenCity will be replaced 2021 by
a new vertically organized terminal integrated into the southern section of Überseequartier, currently under construction.
Served by two berths, it will be able to
process more than 3,000 passengers at a
time. In addition to cruise ship operations,
the complex building ensemble with its
underground bus station, car parking
slots and taxi stand, as well as hotel and
retail space, will also incorporate other
uses which are ingeniously interlinked.
LIVING ON THE
QUAY POINT
In the area on the prominent site on
Strandkai point (55-57) west of Unilever
House around 500 residences are to be
realized, among them many building-cooperative and affordable apartments.
Perimeter block typologies are planned,
to designs by Léon Wohlhage Wernik
(Berlin), LRW Architekten und Stadtplan-
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er (Hamburg) and BE Berlin, as well as
two residential towers (about 60 m high,
exactly levelling with Marco Polo Tower), designed by Ingenhoven Architects
(Düsseldorf) and Hadi Teherani Architects (Hamburg). This will lend western
HafenCity a new, defining urban aspect
on the Elbe, continuing into southern
Überseequartier. At ground floor level, a
1,000 sqm children’s arts center (KinderKulturHaus) will open, along with other
cultural uses on nearly 3,000 sqm and
shops and catering. Option holders are
Deutsche Immobilien AG and Aug. Prien
Immobilien, HANSA Baugenossenschaft,
Gemeinnützige Baugenossenschaft
Bergedorf-Bille and Bauverein der Elbgemeinden. Building work will probably
start in 2016, with completion planned
for 2019/20.
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area: 6.9 ha
Jobs: approx. 4,770
Uses: offices, hotel,
retail, catering
 Homes
733
Cruise terminal,
Children’s arts center
2005 to 2020
2021 to 2025 (plots 61-63
currently blocked)
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ÜBERSEEQUARTIER
Highly Complex Diversity in a Central Location
While northern Überseequartier’s urban qualities unfurl increasingly, a breakthrough has been reached in
development and realization of its southern area at the heart of HafenCity
W
ith its 14 ha of urban space, Überseequartier signifies much more than
additional attractions for HafenCity. It
offers a wide variety of residential uses
for 2,000 residents as well as 6,100 potential jobs of the most diversified types; it
is the commercial core of HafenCity, presenting international wares to an average 50,000 retail customers every day
and entertainment until late at night; it
is the site of a vertically integrated terminal for cruise ships and hotel uses with a
multiplicity of rooms adding up to 1,100.
Even by HafenCity standards this is an
extremely eclectic mix. It also illustrates
just how far HafenCity has developed as
a city in terms of its integrated complex
mix of uses. It is setting international
standards.
THE NORTHERN SECTION:
L ARGELY COMPLETED
Since the spatial realization of HafenCity
is taking place from north to south, the
northern part, offering around 140,000
sqm gross floor area (GFA) for living,
offices, retail, catering and hotel uses,
has been more or less finished since 2010,
with the exception of one site. Its structure is based on an overall urban planning concept by international architects,
based on the urban planning blueprint
developed by Trojan Trojan + Partner.
Public spaces throughout Überseequartier and areas around Magdeburger Hafen
basin were realized according to a concept by Catalan landscape architect Beth
Galí and her firm BB+GG arquitectes. The
characteristic striped ground surfaces
composed of reddish, gray and light-colored natural stone slabs is omnipresent
in central HafenCity.
In northern Überseequartier, which
features less retail than the south, which
is still to be built, more than two dozen
shops and places to eat and drink have
opened. In the north the more than 340
A small market takes place on Tuesday mornings on Überseeboulevard. In the background the former harbor master’s office, Altes Hafenamt, one of the few
original buildings retained in HafenCity; now a hotel with restaurant and bar
apartments built are rented out. The
32,600 sqm of office space created is
occupied by well-known firms such as
lawyers Esche Schümann Commichau
and the oil multi BP. At the beginning of
2015 a special German real estate fund
managed for several long-term investing pension funds by Hines Immobilien
GmbH acquired most of the completed
buildings. Sumatrakontor had already
been sold to Blackstone.
opened in March 2016 as an upmarket
hotel with a restaurant and bar. Project
developer Groß & Partner in partnership
with Hamburg hotelier Kai Hollmann
were responsible for this unusual project. Hollmann, co-owner and operator of
the hotel, is founder of the 25 hours hotel
group and managing director of the Fortune Hotels group.
The winning design for the southern residential and commercial complex (34/16)
is by blauraum architekten of Hamburg.
The 214 residences to be built here are
exclusively for rental; one third are subsidized homes.
Finally the former harbor master’s
office, Altes Hafenamt, one of the few
remaining original buildings in HafenCity,
L AST UNBUILT SITES
DEVELOPED
Northern Überseequartier already has impressive big-city atmosphere and links its identity to the Speicherstadt. In the foreground, the sole remaining building,
over 25 years old – formerly housing a shipping company, it is today home to HafenCity Hamburg GmbH
In late summer 2015 building work
began on the last remaining vacant sites
in the northern section of the neighborhood. Between Sandtorkai and Tokiostrasse (34/15 and 34/16), an unusually
sophisticated mix of homes, a hotel and
entertainment complex with premium
cinema is reinforcing the urbanity of the
northern area. Prime responsibility for its
realization is with DC Commercial and
DC Residential. Nalbach + Nalbach Architekten GmbH of Berlin is responsible for
planning the building sited to the north
(34/15) in which cinema entrepreneur
Hans-Joachim Flebbe (Astor Film Lounge)
will run a luxury cinema. Next door, a
hotel to appeal to families is to be realized jointly by Kai Hollmann, Frederik and
Gerrit Braun (Miniatur Wunderland) and
Professor Norbert Aust (Schmidts Tivoli).
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34/4
34/16
34/3
34/6
34/5
34/7
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ÜBERSEEQUARTIER
major milestone. Europe’s leading quoted real estate concern is investing around
EUR 860 million in the 260,000 sqm GFA
to be developed. Of this, about 80,500
sqm will be retail, 55,000 sqm residential
and 65,000 sqm commercial. In addition,
cultural uses will occupy some 12,000
sqm; bars, cafés and restaurants about
8,000 sqm. Hotel space will amount to
about 40,000 sqm.
MIXED USE AND
COMMERCIAL CENTER
Driver of integration and interconnectedness: central Überseequartier will unfold enormous integrative
power, stimulating flows of pedestrians and shoppers throughout HafenCity and the Speicherstadt. In
future the task is to more closely connect the inner city shopping areas to the north
In contrast to the conventional shopping formats of Hamburg’s city center
with its passageway malls and mainstreet-format Mönckebergstrasse and
Spitalerstrasse, northern Überseequartier with its owner-run boutiques, its
post office, drug store and supermarket,
gastronomic attractions and handful
of specialist shops already has a profile
of its own. The area is increasingly lively and integrated, for example through
the small center around the old harbor
master’s office, Altes Hafenamt – even
so the whole northern area is affected by
the delay in development of its southern
counterpart.
FRESH START FOR
SOUTHERN
ÜBERSEEQUARTIER
An optimistic atmosphere prevails
in southern Überseequartier since the
overall development and realization of
the project was taken over by UnibailRodamco in December 2014, which was a
The changeover to Unibail-Rodamco
creates an opportunity to put the original concept on a new viable basis for the
future. Retail will be more attractively
designed, office space reduced in favor of
apartments, and the cruise terminal better integrated into the local urban structure. Retail space will be arranged over
three stories – basement, ground and
first. This way, circuitous routes will be
created in basement and ground floors,
with a far greater mix of sizes, including
two or three anchor tenants and shops, all
with large dimension shop window frontage. Space on first floors will be accessed
from ground floors.
The new southern waterfront will really stand out: southern Überseequartier
will change the cityscape, adding a new
perimeter on the Elbe with an ensemble
comprising the cruise passenger terminal, two 60 m towers in the center and
a sculptural 70 m office building on
Magdeburger Hafen basin. The red-brick
character here will be offset by light,
glazed façades reflecting the river, port
and sky.
The current Cruise Center HafenCity
will be replaced by a vertically organized terminal integrated into southern
Überseequartier with the capacity to
process more than 3,000 passengers at
a time and served by two berths. Apart
from the actual cruise ship business, the
complex ensemble of buildings also has
an underground bus station, car-parking
spaces and a taxi stand, as well as hotel
and retail space cleverly overlapping and
interlinked.
Überseequartier will be HafenCity’s commercial heart. Here a view from the River Elbe: cruise terminal and hotel on the left and – easily recognizable –
the beginning of Überseeboulevard between twin tower blocks
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area:14 ha
Total GFA: approx. 410,000 sqm
 Homes
approx. 1,100
Old harbor master’s office,
U4 Überseequartier subway
station, vertically structured
cruise terminal
Uses (GFA)
Retail: 93,000 sqm
Office: 122,000 sqm
Culture/entertainment:
13,000 sqm
Hotel: 55,000 sqm
Catering: 15,000 sqm
Cruise terminal:
approx. 8,000 sqm
Total: 403,000 sqm
Jobs (full time)
Retail: 1,900
Office: 3,200
Culture/entertainment: 150
Hotel: 550
Catering: 300
Cruise terminal: 40
Total: 6,140
2007 to 2017 (north)
2017 to 2022 (south)
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Most residences in southern Überseequartier are being built to the north of
the subway line to exclude conflicts of use
with the cruise terminal and late-night
entertainment. Adding the around 500
units being built in the southern section
to the 600 or so apartments in the northern part, Überseequartier alone will have
some 1,100 residences – which is almost
double the number originally planned.
Since the buildings to the south of the
subway will be protected against rain and
partially against wind by a glass roof and
altered alignment to prevailing weather,
they will create a more pleasant shopping experience. At the same time, unlike
fully air-conditioned, closed in shopping
mall concepts, the open street area and
open character of the spaces between
the buildings will be preserved. The latter
In the south, an open, stylish shopping district will develop, not air-conditioned yet partly sheltered from
the weather
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is anyway a characteristic of the whole
of Überseequartier, both in north and
south. For even though the floor space
will be owned long-term by private builders – Unibail-Rodamco in the south, in the
north primarily fund administrator Hines
Immobilien – they will retain their public
right of way and space concept and their
openness.
NEW ARCHITECTURE
IN THE SOUTH
The year 2015, in which both the use
concept and urban planning structures
were thoroughly overhauled, was also
used to provide new architecture for all
11 buildings in southern Überseequartier.
With numerous different integrated uses
and through the interaction between
different buildings – red brick in the
center, light façades on the Elbe waterfront – Überseequartier now becomes
the exciting core of a new downtown
area. Internationally renowned architects
such as Pritzker prizewinner Christian de
Portzamparc (7, 11) or UNStudio (10) are
involved, as well as the important German architects’ offices Carsten Roth (1),
léonwohlhage (2), kbnk (3), Hild und K (4,
9), Böge Lindner K2 (5, 8), Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei (6), with interior design
from Saguez & Partners (14), and last but
not least, Sobek Design for the roof construction (13). The roof, a highly complex
glass and metal construction, will shield
central shopping areas south of the U4
subway station against wind and rain,
and mediates between the individual
architectural highlights. As is the case
all over HafenCity, high ecological standards will also be set in Überseequartier.
All buildings will be constructed to meet
the tough criteria of the gold HafenCity
Ecolabel or the stringent BREEAM Excellent Standard.
OPEN AND
URBANE SHOPPING
QUARTER
Thus both in terms of its use concept
and its urban structure, the new concept
for southern Überseequartier also harks
back to the themes of the original plans.
Nevertheless, the new beginning is being
made use of to introduce new elements
Southern Überseequartier will become a highly integrated urban neighborhood and place to work. Photo shows San Francisco street with residential buildings to
the left, a hotel building incorporating retail in the foreground, and Überseequartier subway station. Visible in the background in one of the twin office towers
which create much better conditions for
long term success in running Überseequartier as the mixed use, commercial
heart of HafenCity. Large anchor retail
uses, new entertainment attractions,
including a large multiplex cinema with
more than ten auditoria and 2,700 seats,
a super-efficient, attractive cruise terminal, and a new waterfront area with
architecturally outstanding buildings: all
of these elements will add up to an underlying high visitor frequency, also during
the week and in the evenings – with the
potential to become an animated “24hour city”.
A new shopping neighborhood will
grow up – open and urbanistic, not
air-conditioned but protected against
weather, which is interspersed with other well-connected public amenities with
public appeal, such as residential, office
and hotel space. The integration of the
new cruise terminal will create an overall
area whose intensity of use, mix and size
is so far unique, at least in Europe, and
which will benefit smaller and medium
size shops and the many ground floor
areas throughout HafenCity.
Through its open urban planning
structure, in which there are no climatic borders and no obvious “inside” and
“outside”, central Überseequartier will
develop enormous integrative power
embracing the whole of HafenCity. As the
heart of the new district, it will mobilize
pedestrian flows between the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, along Kaiserkai,
as well as between Strandkai point and
Überseequartier. Other beneficiaries
will be the areas between Speicherstadt
and southern Überseequartier, as well
as walking routes around Magdeburger
Hafen basin.
The first step in construction, the excavation of the enormous building site, is
likely to begin at the start of 2017 when
the zoning plan has been finalized and
building applications have been made.
Completion of central areas with retail,
catering, entertainment, cruise passenger terminal, hotel and some office and
residential is expected in 2021.
RESIDENTIAL TOWER
HOTEL
RESIDENTIAL
OFFICES
OFFICES
1ST FLOOR
UPPER GROUND
LOWER GROUND
(WARFT LEVEL)
Cruise terminal
Anchor tenants
Retail
Catering
Office
Apartments
Entertainment
Hotel
Parking
Other
Axonometric projection of southern Überseequartier: below the basement with its retail space and bus
station lies the two-level underground garage. Above are the open ground floor dominated by shops
and the first floor, which has retail as well as other uses. By integrating below-ground building functions,
Überseequartier above ground attains the character of an ensemble of standalone buildings
INTERLINKED
SHOPPING LOCATIONS
In the future, established inner-city
shopping areas are to be more closely
linked to HafenCity. So far continuing
growth of retail in the city and development of Business Improvement Districts
(BIDs) have led to improvements in both
quality and supply there, but not yet
to a gradual “growing together” of city
and HafenCity. The establishment of a
strong magnet such as Überseequartier
will mean that, medium term, conditions
can now be created for shoppers to stroll
back and forth between an integrated
Mönckebergstrasse, Spitalerstrasse and
HafenCity.
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HafenCity’s New Knowledge Quarter
East of Magdeburger Hafen, an interesting knowledge quarter surrounding HafenCity University and the Elbe Arcades has
emerged – joining other trend-setting buildings and uses such as the Ecumenical Forum and the Musicians’ House
A
lively and diversified quarter is evolving between Magdeburger Hafen,
Brooktorhafen and Am Lohsepark neighborhood whose very special atmosphere
stems from the new HafenCity University
(HCU) with its 2,500 students and various other pioneering undertakings. The
urban planning conception for Elbtorquartier picks up on a variety of typologies. While buildings of up to 70 m will be
erected in the south, an elongated block
structure approximately 170 m long to the
east, which is also replicated in Magdeburger Hafen, ties into the existing built
structure along Hongkongstrasse.
DISTINCTIVE BRIDGE LINKS
WEST AND EAST
From the Speicherstadt, a footway leads
over León-Brücke bridge, designed by
Austrian architects Dietmar Feichtinger
and WTM Engineers of Hamburg, directly into the listed Kaispeicher B warehouse building (40). This is the oldest
building in HafenCity, erected in 1879 to
designs by Wilhelm Emil Meerwein and
Bernhard Hanssen, and was thoroughly
remodeled to plans by architects MRLV
Markovic Ronai Voss. Since summer 2008
it has housed the International Maritime
Museum Hamburg.
The passageway through the museum
leads out onto a spacious forecourt on
whose waterside the first harbor launch
landing stage in central HafenCity was
opened in summer 2012. As of late summer 2014, the adjoining promenade
on the pier in front of the Elbe Arcades
along Magdeburger Hafen leads across
Buenos Aires quay, past HCU and on into
Baakenhafen neighborhood. This means
that walkers and cyclists enjoy an unobstructed, car-free route from the Elbe
embankment at Baakenhafen through
to Ericcuspitze.
In the process they pass over the historic recently renamed Busanbrücke bridge
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47
44a
44b
45
49a
50
48
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52
An ecologically sustainable
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“knowledge quarter”
is emerging between
Magdeburger Hafen to the
west, Brooktorhafen to the
north, Shanghaiallee to the
east and Baakenhafen to
the south
crossing Magdeburger Hafen basin, the
most significant east-west link for pedestrians and cyclists in central HafenCity. It
connects western and central neighborhoods to eastern HafenCity. Like the surrounding promenades, this open space
designed by Beth Galí is also paved with
natural stone in a stripe pattern with
plenty of space for all users.
UNIQUE ELBE ARCADES
An interesting knowledge quarter is clustered around Magdeburger Hafen, with the International Maritime Museum Hamburg in the foreground, the HafenCity
University and the Elbe Arcades, and such modernistic projects as the Ecumenical Forum and the Musicians’ House
In the northern part of the neighborhood, the customs head office for the City
of Hamburg moved into its new location
designed by Winking Froh Architekten
(Hamburg/Berlin) in 2011 (46). Directly opposite, the newly built annex to
expand the corporate headquarters of
Gebr.Heinemann (42) will be occupied
from summer 2016. The design, by Gerkan, Marg und Partner (gmp) of Hamburg,
attaches a glass connecting building to
the existing historic Heinemann warehouse which links it to the new extension
with an underground garage, six floors of
offices and two recessed upper stories.
Construction matches up to the standards of the HafenCity gold Ecolabel.
South of Busanbrücke, the Elbe Arcades,
opened at the end of 2013 and built to
a design by Bob Gysin + Partner BGP
Architekten (Zurich), line the whole eastern embankment of Magdeburger Hafen.
It is one of the most innovative and ecological buildings in Europe. Rather than
a straight promenade, the complex of
buildings, which conforms to Hafen
City gold Ecolabel criteria, features a
170 m-long flood-protected arcade, 8 m
high and 10 m deep, which is integrated
The Elbe Arcades at Magdeburger Hafen are one of Europe’s most innovatively
designed and ecological buildings
into the buildings, and fronted by a low
public pier along Magdeburger Hafen
basin. The roof of the ensemble provides
a garden and play area for its residents.
The 130 apartments allow a wide variety
of uses – from multigenerational homes
through to residential and workspace
lofts, as well as duplexes, and wheelchair friendly units for seniors. Some of
the apartments have attached ateliers,
picking up on the Elbe Arcades’ character
as a center of design in Hamburg.
Several users, leading proponents of
the industry, all of which have chosen to
locate to the Elbe Arcades, are promoting
this creative aspect: designxport, Hamburg’s primary design scene network, iF
International Forum Design GmbH, which
organizes the annual iF design competition award, and world-famous designer
Peter Schmidt and his agency Agentur
PSBZ.
The southern part of the new building
(45), topped by conspicuous wind rotors,
is the preserve of Greenpeace. The environmental organization clusters various
local and nationwide activities under
one roof. Publicly accessible exhibits in
the foyer showcase Greenpeace working
topics and campaigns. The highlight is a
6 m totem pole – a present from Nuxalk
Indians as a thank-you for Greenpeace’s
work in their homeland.
This building, too, has an exemplary
energy concept, combining high efficiency, low consumption and very high
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deployment of renewable energies, including geothermal and photovoltaic
energy, as well as the wind rotors on the
roof. Requirements for electricity and
heat (so-called primary energy requirements) currently run at 50 percent below
the applicable statutory regulations for
energy-efficient buildings.
UNIVERSIT Y WITH
ELBE VIEWS
In Elbtorquartier alongside HafenCity University, a new ensemble of buildings – named Watermark, Freeport and Shipyard – is under construction, consisting of a
70 m waterside office tower and two other buildings including about 46 apartments
A key role in the Elbtorquartier knowledge quarter is played by HafenCity University, which opened in April 2014 and
is injecting new life into the area. The
esthetically outstanding newbuild (54) at
the entrance to Baakenhafen designed by
architects Code Unique (Dresden) opens
out simultaneously to the plaza in front
of it, to Baakenhafen and to Lohsepark.
The overall ecological concept for the
building was also pre-certified with the
gold HafenCity Ecolabel.
ECE of Hamburg and Strabag Real Estate
have been working on the Watermark,
Freeport and Shipyard building ensemble, offering around 32,000 gross floor
area (GFA) on a 9,100 sqm site, since
January 2015. Designs by Störmer Murphy and Partners (Hamburg), provide for
an iconic landmark office tower around
70 m high containing 18 stories (52). The
project at the water’s edge includes two
further buildings (53) with space for some
46 apartments and ground-floor public
amenities. The ensemble, combined with
HCU, creates a public square. The foundation stone was laid in September 2015;
completion is planned for 2017.
ECUMENICAL FORUM
NEXT TO MUSICIANS’
HOUSE
Other excellent projects such as the Ecumenical Forum (49a) on Shanghaiallee,
opened in summer 2012, lend the quarter
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area: 9 ha
Jobs: approx. 3,700
Uses: office, retail, catering,
services, hotel, academia
 Homes
370
Elbe Arcades, HafenCity University International Maritime
Museum Hamburg
Ecumenical Forum
designxport hamburg
2007 to 2018
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HafenCity University (eastern entrance shown), a young and vibrant center for teaching and research
Shanghaiallee is gradually turning into a stylish business and residential street. By fall 2016 upgrading
open since April 2014 at the heart of HafenCity
works on cycle lanes, delivery zones, disabled parking slots, broad sidewalks and a triple row of newly
planted trees should be finished. The center of the photo shows the Musicians’ House, the Ecumenical
Forum and a joint building venture
social and spiritual character. Nineteen
Christian churches support this joint religious project – unique in Germany – with
its meeting place and café in the publicly
accessible ground floor, and chapel as a
haven of tranquility. The upper stories are
occupied by the Laurentius convent and
an ecumenical residential community.
Right next door, the Musicians’ House
(50) was successfully completed in fall
2014. Artistic and creative people can live
out their dream of creative interaction
and collectively making music within
their own partly soundproofed and flexibly usable four walls.
Stadthaushotel (48) will be Europe’s
largest inclusive hotel. Forty of the 80
jobs will go to people with a disability.
The around 200 rooms and restaurant of
the three-star hotel will be particularly
attractive to people with reduced mobility. The Jugend hilft Jugend association
is managing the project, with financial
support from private sources and the
City of Hamburg. The architectural competition for the building was won by
Huke-Schubert Berge Architekten (Hamburg); however finance has to be secured
before construction can begin. Its size is
also being reconsidered. Long completed,
on the other hand, is the first residential
building to be awarded the gold Ecolabel,
NIDUS Loft on Shanghaiallee (49).
Elbtorquartier has very good public
transport connections. Messberg U1
subway station is to the north, outside
HafenCity, while to the south the new
U4 subway line began regular services in
August 2013 to HafenCity University station, which has won awards for its lighting concept.
In the interests of road safety, following
final completion of Shanghaiallee by fall
2016, cycle traffic will be channeled along
special cycle lanes beside the roadway
and also dovetailed into the surrounding
cycle path network. Ancillary spaces will
be adapted to urban demands.
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AM LOHSEPARK
Central Green Urban District Replaces
Industrial Pioneers
An historic industrial and railroad site makes way for a family-oriented residential neighborhood
clustered around Lohsepark, HafenCity’s largest green space
In the center of HafenCity an appealing new family-oriented residential neighborhood is growing up around Lohsepark
An attractive urban area is taking shape in central HafenCity with Lohsepark at its center and Shanghaiallee as its western boundary. All its buildings adjoin the
green park to the east and west
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m Lohsepark is an attractive urban
space emerging in central HafenCity –
at its heart its green core, Lohsepark.
Since all of the buildings adjoin the green
space to the west and east, this continues Hamburg’s town planning tradition
of planting large parks amid residential
and working neighborhoods. Development of the neighborhood started from
the partially listed red-brick ensemble
between Lohseplatz and Shanghaiallee,
whose residents include the Prototyp private collection of automobiles and the
non-profit DO School. This beautifully
renovated architectural gem was once
the corporate headquarters of Harburger
Gummi-Kamm-Compagnie, a pioneer of
Hamburg industrialization. The look of
this quarter will be dominated by closed
blocks of five to seven story buildings
grouped around the park. Since June 2014,
it has been directly connected to Brooktorhafen in the north by the newly renovated Ericus bridge – a railroad swing bridge
built in 1870.
FAMILY HOMES
ON THE PARK
The residential theme is taking on
increasingly concrete form here at
Lohsepark. At the end of 2015, the first of
three buildings, each comprising around
20,000 gross floor area (GFA), on the
park between Steinschanze in the north,
Überseeallee in the south, and Shanghaiallee in the west, was completed. The
three form part of an urban area consisting of nearly 500 apartments (for rent-
al, publicly subsidized, building venture
and privately owned), as well as student
accommodation and a hotel. On the
5,000 sqm northern plot (70), the building complex being developed by Baugenossenschaft Bergedorf-Bille eG, KOS
Wulff Immobilien GmbH and Otto Wulff
Projektentwicklung GmbH, there is a mix
of offices, health services and commercial
space as well as social services, kindergartens and 159 housing units, some of which
are publicly subsidized. These include the
first inclusive household community in
HafenCity in which 19 people with disabilities and ten students live under one
roof in seven shared apartments. On the
ground floor on Shanghaiallee, Germany’s youngest three-star chef Kevin Fehling runs his top restaurant “the Table”.
Almost next door are the facilities of pme
Familienservice GmbH.
At the same time construction of the
residential building on the southern plot
(71) next door is going well. The ensemble, designed by architects Dinse Feest
Zurl (Hamburg), Springer (Berlin) and
Siebrecht Münzesheimer/BOF (Hamburg), is being built by a joint building
venture consortium consisting of 70 parties (Dock 71) and managed by Stattbau
Hamburg and Conplan GmbH, with Behrendt Wohneigentum GmbH and building cooperative Hamburger Wohnen. It is
made up of privately owned apartments,
subsidized rental homes, with commercial ground-floor uses and a kindergarten. Special to this project are its roof-top
landscape with terraces, garden houses,
glasshouses and viewing points, as well
as the planted interior courtyard intended as an area for relaxation and social
encounter. The building joint venture’s
northern building complex should be
completed in 2016, while construction of
the southern section is under way. Completion is planned for 2017.
The adjoining site to the south is being
developed by a consortium of ECE, Harmonia Immobilien GmbH and the Hamburg student union into a mix of uses
consisting of a hotel, publicly subsidized
student accommodation (125 apartments) and privately financed homes (45
high-quality units), accounting for a total
21,000 sqm GFA. The residential parts are
designed by KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten (Brunswick); the hotel element was
conceived by Kister Scheithauer Gross
Architekten und Stadtplaner (Cologne).
Construction begins in mid-2016.
The former customs office site (66), one
of the few not owned by Hamburg’s spe-
cial fund for port and city assets, offers
around 9,000 sqm GFA for a mix of uses.
In addition not only are more residential
units planned to round off the block containing the Prototyp automobile museum, but a variety of uses (74-76) are also
planned to the east of the park. Possible is
a highly diversified use with office space,
residences and a cultural element.
Since July 2015, a small portion of the
area to the north has been dedicated as a
new location for the highly popular temporary HafenCity soccer pitch. A group
of enthusiasts rolled up their sleeves and
got to work – with support from HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, the St. Katharinen parish and Spielhaus HafenCity
e.V., – and laid out an artificial turf field
with additional areas for locals’ activities. 2016/2017 will see the architectural
competition for a new educational center with gymnasium and comprehensive
schools.
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Large parts of Lohsepark are already accessible, but the park will be fully opened to all residents and visitors from July 2016. Photo shows the baseball court,
already open, with HCU in the background
HAFEN CIT Y’S
L ARGEST PARK
Based on the principles of the urban
development Masterplan, Lohsepark,
whose open space concept was designed
by Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten AG
(Zurich), is the largest contiguous park in
HafenCity in the tradition of Hamburg’s
existing Volkspark. Covering 4.4 ha, it will
incorporate a variety of urban, social and
ecological functions.
Framed by an unobstructed visual axis
from Ericusspitze to Baakenhafen, the
80 m-wide park stretches 600 m in length
like a wide green ribbon from waterside to
waterside. Its generous sweeps of grass
crisscrossed by a loose network of paths,
seating and play areas are interspersed
with more than 530 trees, provide relaxing surroundings.
Construction of Lohsepark is proceeding quickly. While the park has looked
pretty green in the north and south since
2013, large parts of the central area were
opened to the public to coincide with the
HSH Nordbank Run in HafenCity in 2015,
including play areas for children, a stone
grotto and a street basketball court. In
contrast to this urban scene, the park will
show its softer side at its northern limits on the embankment of Ericusgraben
canal: an underwater sheet pile wall provides the conditions for a gently inclin-
ing thicket of herbage, shrubs, reeds and
rushes. At the same time, trees are gradually being planted in the central section of
the park so that as soon as the last of the
earthworks are completed and the grass
areas have grown, the official opening
can take place in July 2016.
PARK CENTERED ON
MEMORIAL
The area in Lohsepark now approaching
completion was once the site of parts of
Hanover Railroad Station. Between 1940
and 1945 at least 7,692 people – Jews,
Sinti and Roma – were deported from
here. In Lohsepark, a place of remembrance of this dark chapter of Hamburg
history is being created, a memorial
“denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof”,
made up of three elements. In addition
to the central place of remembrance, the
listed remains of Platform 2 connecting
with the park to the east, this includes the
so-called “seam” that traces the route of
the historic rail tracks from the former
station forecourt, through the park to the
platform as well as a documentation center yet to be built, which will have a direct
visual connection to the historic memorial on the western side of the park, on
Steinschanze street.
The new seven-story building, to designs
by Wandel Lorch Architekten (Frankfurt/
Saabrücken), comprising around 6,100
GFA, will offer around 700 sqm of space
at ground floor level for exhibitions and
events. The core element will be a permanent exhibition about the fate of deportees from north Germany and Hamburg,
based on the temporary exhibit conceived by Dr Linda Apel, entitled “Sent
to their Deaths”. This has been shown
in reduced form in the Hanover Railroad
Station InfoPavilion since September
2013. The exhibition will be reworked and
revised and subsequently run by the management of Neuengamme Concentration
Camp. The “seam” will be opened to the
public in July 2016; the central memorial
will be completed in spring 2017.
BUSINESSES COMPLETE
THE URBAN PICTURE
Another ingredient in the vitality of
Lohsepark’s mix of green space and residential areas – as throughout HafenCity – will be the influence of business on
local life. On the corner of Shanghaiallee/
Koreastrasse the Hamburg oil company
Marquard & Bahls is completing its new
corporate headquarters. Offering around
18,000 sqm GFA, the building (65) will
be ready to welcome 700 employees to
their workplaces in spring 2016. Retailers and catering uses occupy the ground
floor. The building has an unusual three-
story urban balcony along Brooktorhafen
embankment which links the interior
atrium with the surroundings. Planning of
this conspicuous newbuild is by Gewers
& Pudewill (Berlin). Along with offices
for company executives and others, the
seventh story houses a spacious fitness
area for all employees inhouse. An underground garage over two levels also provides parking for numerous bicycles; the
area also provides showers and changing
rooms for coworkers. A charging station
for e-bikes has also been installed. Another special feature is the exterior elevator,
which can carry up to 20 people from the
ground floor direct to the house jetty on
Brooktorhafen dock.
As more companies move in, Brooktorhafen is developing into an attractive place
to work, peppered with businesses of differing sizes, benefiting from their vicinity
to such corporate neighbors as Gebr.Heinemann, Spiegel publishing or DNV Germanischer Lloyd in surrounding quarters.
Structural alteration works will be finalized by fall 2016, but Shanghaiallee, with
its broad sidewalks and comparatively
busy traffic volume, already has the character of an attractive urban street for
business or residents. It was built at an
early stage of HafenCity’s development
as a flood-secure axis running through
the center from the Speicherstadt in the
north to HafenCity University on Überseeallee in the south. The big-city boulevard feel is generated by the completed
NIDUS, Ecumenical Forum and Musicians’
House buildings on the other side in Elbtorquartier, as well as the Prototyp automobile museum and the first large residential block to be ready on Lohsepark.
Over the coming months and years,
as additional buildings are developed,
more shops and other public amenities
will open in ground floors, adding to the
area’s urban character.
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area: 12.5 ha
Jobs: approx. 3,000
Uses: office, services,
hotel, catering, retail
 Homes
730
denk.mal Hanover Railroad
Station, Prototyp automobile
museum, two secondary
schools and kindergartens
2012 to 2020
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“denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof”: a seam (foreground) marks the course of the historic rail tracks to the relics of the former platform. A documentation center
(background right) is to be built on the opposite, western side of the park
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OBERHAFEN
Oberhafen – the Creative and Cultural Quarter
Centrally located, a dynamic cultural and creative neighborhood is developing south of Oberhafen harbor,
bringing fresh potential for Hamburg
The neighborhood already houses various creative users and cultural events out of which a permanent creative milieu will develop. A nine-a-side soccer pitch will
be laid out on Oberhafen embankment, with light athletics facilities for schools and sports clubs
in development. In the same framework,
Oberhafen e.V. and other organizations
are promoting the careful, sustainable
development of the neighborhood into a
lively location for art, culture and creative
activities.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR
CULTURE AND CREATIVE
INDUSTRIES
Existing buildings will form the nucleus of a quarter for the creative industries
O
berhafen nucleus: Though the area
consisted till recently mostly of dedicated railroad facilities and most of the
storage sheds served logistics companies,
a variety of creative uses have also been
here for at least ten years. Cultural events
in different formats take place regularly.
From the short-film festival to dance performances, creative co-working spaces to
places like Halle 424, part of an old warehouse at the end of Stockmeyerstrasse
which unites under one roof scenery and
set production, a photographic studio and
cool location for jazz and classical music:
the conditions are in place for a lively art
and cultural scene to grow, closely linked
to the rest of HafenCity, Rothenburgsort
and City Süd, where new cultural activ-
ities are developing, and just a stone’s
throw from Hamburg’s “museum mile”.
To do this, however, the “normal” HafenCity development process has been
turned on its head. Instead of a new
urban concept, the approach to development here is to find fresh and intensified
uses for existing buildings; a step by step
transformation process in cooperation
with tenants. The sites, which contain
mainly one-story goods sheds, are not
sold, but remain the property of the
special fund for city and port (administered by HafenCity Hamburg GmbH), not
least to retain the possibility of shaping
development in Hamburg’s interests and
secure a sound economic basis.
DIALOG-ORIENTED
DEVELOPMENT
The various development concepts for
the neighborhood are worked out during
the course of an intensive dialog process,
based on a longer development timeframe of up to ten years. Throughout the
development phase, HafenCity Hamburg
GmbH will be working closely with Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft GmbH, with
an energetic exchange of ideas with creative enterprises and people involved in
the arts and a variety of other interested
parties. A kick-off international symposium in spring 2011 started the ball rolling,
still today resulting in numerous other
events and discussions, as well as steps
Long warehouses, once mainly used
by logistics businesses, with multi-story
frontage buildings are the main features
of Oberhafen neighborhood. Changing
their use will lend them a strong public character. Nevertheless, the creative
industry’s new production locations will
require new usage permits, considerable
modernization, as well as flood-protection. The existing buildings could be supplemented in the medium term, through
private or cooperative building projects,
for example, if they serve cultural or creative purposes and, like the old buildings,
are sublet at affordable rents.
Oberhafenquartier’s mix of old and new
should create up to 500 jobs in the long
term in various branches of the cultural/
creative industry, forming the basis for a
lasting creative scene that could spill over
later into the Central Wholesale Market
site to the east. Small-scale gastronomy
and exhibition and presentation spaces
will also serve to reinforce the public function of the quarter and aid its integration
into the rest of HafenCity.
Because of the complexity of local conditions, expressions of interest were invited for the first time at the beginning of
2012 to find a temporary use concept for
a vacant site. From the 15 proposed con-
cepts submitted, an interdisciplinary jury
selected Hanseatic Materialverwaltung.
This successful concept sets out to supply
equipment and scenery for social, ecological or creative projects to Hamburg cultural institutions, state schools, universities,
involved citizens and societies.
In September 2013, Hamburg Kreativ
Gesellschaft and HafenCity Hamburg
GmbH launched another invitation for
tenders, this time for new creative users
for a range of individual spaces of different sizes for exhibition and catering uses
totalling 6,000 sqm. The original search
for an operator for a gastronomy and
exhibition space will continue in separate
proceedings.
PL AYING FIELDS
ON THE WATERFRONT
In addition to the focus on creative and
cultural uses in Oberhafen, unbuilt areas
in the neighborhood also offer opportunities for sport and leisure activities. Public
facilities for sports of all kinds, including a
small soccer ground, will be developed on
former railroad tracks on the embankment
of Oberhafen basin. The facilities will serve
children and youngsters from inner city
areas and HafenCity in particular and can
also be used by sports clubs. HafenCity’s
gymnasium, secondary and two primary
schools will also be able to use the fields
for light athletics.
POWER PL ANT
OBERHAFEN
The neighborhood also plays an important role in energy supply for eastern
HafenCity. Thermal energy for the whole
of eastern HafenCity is being generated by the enterprise Enercity in part of
Goods Shed 4, the project only recognizable from outside because of its chimney . Heat output from the cogeneration
plant concealed behind the brick façade
totals 10 MW. Leading edge technology
crammed into the tiny space includes a
combined heat and power unit, two natural gas-powered boilers (offset biomethanegas), a heat accumulation plant, and
a substation feeding sustainable energy
into the local power grid. Nearly all of the
heating energy requirements of eastern
HafenCity – 92 percent – can thus be generated from renewables, apart from peak
loads.
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area 8.9 ha
Total GFA: 25,000 sqm (existing)
Jobs: approx. 500
Uses: creative and culture
businesses, catering
 Special institutions
Sports facilities in the east
Powerhouse
Development centering on
existing buildings
and perhaps additional
newbuilds, detailed concept
thru intensive dialog
 Completion
Step-by-step implementation
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BAAKENHAFEN
Living, Leisure and Work between Double Waterfronts
Baakenhafen, HafenCity’s largest harbor basin, will boast a dense blend of residential and leisure uses, open-air spaces
and workplaces
O
n either side of HafenCity’s longest
harbor basin, the coming years will
see a sustainable “urban village” grow up
in the midst of this big city. Around Baakenhafen basin a green neighborhood for
residences and leisure will develop, with
a variety of housing – some of it subsidized – to suit the needs of families, students and retired people, as well as many
work places. Various social organizations
have been involved in developing housing
concepts.
The topographical center will be
Baakenpark, an artificial promontory
extending over 1.6 ha, surrounded by
water, which will fulfill a wide range
of functions: first as a green space and
recreational area, but also as a connecting element between the northern and
southern sections of the quarter. Step by
step, development progresses. Construction on the first site in the northwest
began in early summer 2015 and architectural designs for the area around Lola
Rogge square were presented in November 2015, while major residential projects adjoining it to the west and east are
taking shape. Architects presented their
plans for them in January 2016. The tendering phase for the next six plots (82a/b,
83b, 86, 88a-d, 96a/b, 97) concluded successfully in December 2015. In the course
of 2016 options will be granted for at least
800 units and commercial spaces with
attractive double water aspects toward
Baakenhafen basin and the Elbe – also
further plots 96a/b, 97 and 99 bordering
Elbbrücken neighborhood. This means
that, with the exception of three building sites, all plots in the quarter will be
accounted for by summer 2016. At the
same time, construction work will begin
on the northwestern entry to the neighborhood and on the central construction
sections around Lola Rogge square. The
whole neighborhood, apart from a few
individual projects in the northeast, will
probably be completed by 2021.
L ARGE COURT YARDS
WITH WATER VISTAS
The urban planning competition for the
neighborhood was won by APB Architekten (Hamburg) in August 2011. The moderately staggered height of the planned
buildings is a particularly convincing
feature. They will all be of four to seven
stories, in semi-open blocks with a few
smaller, open variations. On the Elbe side,
the buildings in the southern sub-section
will have spacious inner courtyards opening out toward the Elbe, but forming an
incisive perimeter to the city.
The rhythmic arrangement of the plots
to the north between the port and Versmannstrasse where the buildings have
diverse uses also guarantees real protection against noise emissions from
Versmannstrasse and the railroad line.
They form a closed block frontage on the
street side, with the buildings opening
out toward Baakenhafen harbor basin.
The 1 km peninsula of the future Baakenhafen neighborhood stretches far into the Elbe, forming HafenCity’s largest harbor basin – in its center the infilled
artificial promontory for the future Baakenpark
This urban planning mechanism shields
courtyards facing the water from noise.
Thus even apartments on the street enjoy
a noise-protected aspect, since units facing the north only are not possible, but all
apartments have a southern aspect.
FIRST START TO
CONSTRUCTION
An important step toward development of the neighborhood was the opening of the award-winning Baakenhafen
bridge in August 2013. This 170 m link is
much more than a local bridge. It opened
the way for infrastructural development of eastern HafenCity and, during
reconstruction of Versmannstrasse and
work on extending the U4 subway, also
channels traffic to and from the south
of Hamburg. The central segment of the
bridge can be lifted using the power of
the tide, so that Hamburg’s larger historic ships can continue to reach Baakenhafen harbor.
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Ground-breaking architectural planning decisions are generating a striking, densely built urban cityscape on the Elbe
Meanwhile development of the two
plots at the northwest “entrance” to the
neighborhood is going well. Building of
the Campustower project (80), at the
junction of Versmannstrasse/Grandeswerderstrasse, directly opposite Hafen
City University, begins in early summer
2016. It consists of a 15-story office tower and a building in a quiet situation by
the water, in which one third subsidized
homes and additional private apartments are planned. With total floor area
of 22,000 sqm gross floor area (GFA),
designs are by Delugan Meissl Associated
Architects (Vienna) and sop architekten
(Düsseldorf) and realization by GARBE
Immobilien-Projekte GmbH. Building
begins in 2016.
Next door, construction began in early
summer 2015. DS-Bauconcept is building
a 220-room family hotel here for JufaGruppe with special facilities for children and teenagers, while Justus Grosse
Projektentwicklung GmbH is developing around 150 publicly subsidized and
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81b
82a
90a–c
88a–d
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82b
URBAN VILL AGE
In the southern part of the neighborhood, an “urban village center” around
Lola Rogge Platz will grow up, including
an attractive market square with all functions essential to eastern HafenCity. After
the first option was granted at the end
of 2014 to GWG AG (Stuttgart) and Richard Ditting GmbH & Co. KG, architectural
plans for building the center (91, 92a/b,
83a
92a–d
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privately financed apartments going
up between Versmannstrasse and the
harbor basin (81a/b). Planning for the
project was by KBNK Architekten and
PFP Architekten (both of Hamburg). An
option to plan for the site on the east
side of Gerda Gmelin square (83a) was
granted to P&B Sportsdome Management GmbH in June 2015 for an out of the
ordinary sports use. After the successful
completion of the architectural competition in spring 2016, construction work
will probably begin in 2017.
83b
94a–c
93
84a
96
95
97
98
84b
100a–b
99
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BAAKENHAFEN
93) were presented in November 2015. A
total 436 apartments with views of the
Elbe and Baakenhafen basin will be built
to plans by Lorenzen (Hamburg), Max
Dudler (Berlin), KPW (Hamburg), Meck
(Munich), Schenk + Waiblinger (Hamburg), as well as 6a Architects (London).
The projects include multigenerational
homes for families, students, retirees
and people with disabilities. Around 70
percent will be subsidized residential
construction with 14 percent of rentals
below market price. As well as a supermarket, ground floors will accommodate smaller shops, a health and beauty
supermarket and places to eat and drink.
Directly adjoining it (building site 94ac), a school and family center including
a primary school and kindergarten will
open by 2018. A public underground car
park under Lola Rogge square will add
to the small convenience shopping center’s attractions, also catering for parents
bringing and collecting school and kindergarten pupils.
Immediately adjacent, the major residential housing projects to the west
and east (89,90a and 95), are assuming
contours. Here an unusually varied and
socially mixed range of subsidized homes
is being realized by six building cooperatives (Allgemeine Deutsche Schiffszim-
merer-Genossenschaft, Altonaer Spar- u.
Bauverein, Hamburger Wohnen, Bauverein der Elbgemeinden, FLUWOG-NORDMARK and HANSA Baugenossenschaft),
various social welfare agencies, as well as
four joint building ventures. The latter are
the family joint building venture Tor zur
Welt, whose eight-story hybrid wooden
building will be the first large building
made of wood in an inner city; the Arche
Nora building joint venture, which groups
women of different generations; the tenants’ building joint venture Gemeinsam
älter werden, and Kammerkombinat, a
building joint venture made up of people
active in the arts and culture. Homes for
families and older people are also the target groups for whom designs were conceived by the Hamburg firms Schaltraum,
LRW, LA’KET, bof, Huke-Schubert Berge,
Berlin architects KADEN + LAGER and florian krieger of Darmstadt. Social and therapeutic projects are also to be integrated.
Construction of the much talked-about
Stadt für Alle will start in 2017.
GREEN ISL AND
IN HARBOR BASIN
At the end of April 2012 Atelier Loidl
(Berlin) was announced winner of the
international open space competition for
Baakenhafen neighborhood. The winning
design cleverly blends multiple leisure
uses with the special maritime atmosphere of Baakenhafen quarter. At Baakenhafen’s heart is the 1.6 ha Baakenpark
peninsula which will offer a playground,
play and community building, trees and
grassy expanses for recreational activities and relaxing from fall 2017. With the
successful conclusion of landfill works,
extensive landscaping of the open spaces
began in summer 2015. A footbridge to
the north to a design by Hamburg architects Gerkan, Marg und Partner (gmp)
and Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering of Stuttgart, which will be inserted in
fall 2016, will aid the spatial integration of
the two land areas.
Once Versmannstrasse is opened to
traffic again from 2018, a 30 m-wide
Elbe promenade leading along the river
to Entenwerder island and integrating
the Elbe cycle route, will be developed
gradually.
HOUSES IN WATER
A clue to the overall upmarket character
to be expected in Baakenhafen is in the
architecture of the six HafenCity Waterhouses, designed by Japanese Pritzker
prizewinner Shigeru Ban and Szyszkow-
The topographical core of the neighborhood is the 1.6 ha artificial Baakenpark peninsula, which will be finally landscaped in 2016/17
Distribution of uses
Residential (privately owned homes,
some rentals below market price)
Subsidized residential
Office
Special use/leisure
Retail/catering
School/daycare/community facilities
Baakenhafen as a role model for social mix: a wide range of diverse residential concepts is being built, to exacting integrative and social standards
itz-Kowalski from Graz. With their rather
fragile outlines, the residential towers, a
modern interpretation of living on water,
merge seamlessly into maritime Baakenhafen’s architectural vernacular .
PERFECT
TR ANSPORT LINKS
In terms of transport, Baakenhafen
neighborhood will have excellent connections. Construction of access infrastructure and renovation of the historic
docks began back in 2011. By 2017, the
central road artery, Versmannstrasse, will
have been raised to more than 8 m above
sea level; flood-protected and geared to
future traffic demands. At the same time
as the road works, the U4 subway line is
being extended from HafenCity University station to Elbbrücken station. Work
is going on apace: the tracks and subway
and rapid transit stations at Elbbrücken
will be completed at the end of 2018. At
that point the U4 line will also connect
eastern neighborhoods of HafenCity to
the Hamburg subway network, allowing
transfers to and from the rapid transit
S-Bahn. The stretch between HafenCity
University and Elbbrücken stations will be
around 1.3 km long and will take about
two minutes. The subway line will run
underneath the then raised Versmannstrasse as far as Baakenwerder Strasse
and then resurfaces toward Elbbrücken
at about the level of the bridges.
SUSTAINABLE
MOBILIT Y
To ensure that forward-looking transport infrastructure will influence the very
densely built area of eastern HafenCity,
not only will Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken
have a good range of subway and bus services but they will also be a kind of laboratory for low-pollution mobility. Building
developers will provide a reduced ratio of
0.4 parking slots per residence, which will
save on the cost of a second underground
garage level and means apartments can
be offered more cheaply. Developers are
also obliged to see that at least 30 percent
of parking spaces are fitted with recharging infrastructure for e-vehicles and to
participate in developing car-sharing concepts serving areas beyond the neighborhood, so that all households have access
to vehicles without having to own one –
and do not need to use public parking
slots on the street. In 2016, tenders specifying a proportion of e-cars will be invited
for a car-sharing system; the chosen operator will be announced in 2017.
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area: 24 ha
Overall GFA: 395,000 sqm
Jobs: around 4,500 (including Baakenhöft)
Uses: office, leisure facilities, hotel, retail, catering, services
 Homes
approx. 2,000
1.6 ha artificially in-filled
area for play and recreational facilities in Baakenhafen harbor, primary school, childcare
 Development time span
2012 to 2021 (apart from individual project in northeast)
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ELBBRÜCKEN
A Metropolitan Business and Residential
Neighborhood with a View
HafenCity’s sensational eastern threshold, on the waterside and close to lush Entenwerder island,
will also make a very attractive residential neighborhood
E
lbbrücken neighborhood, named for
Hamburg’s main River Elbe bridging
point, will be HafenCity’s second urban
center after Überseequarter. Spectacular
high-rises, water surfaces on three sides
and a large central plaza will characterize this very densely built business and
residential location. Around 58 percent
of the area is planned for office use and
some 15 percent for restaurants, bars and
special uses – a potential 13,000 jobs. This
still leaves 27 percent of land allocation
for residential – depending on their size,
there will be around 1,000 apartments.
The urban planning competition for the
quarter was concluded in September
2015. In agreement with the Hamburg
urban development and housing ministry, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH had
launched an urban planning realization
competition in which seven internationally renowned architectural firms partici-
pated. First prize went to Hosoya Schaefer
Architects of Zurich whose design clearly
defined the eastern entry to HafenCity
and provides a robust foundation for further development.
PROMINENT
CORPOR ATE BASE
Close to the city and excellently integrated into the public transport system,
Elbbrücken neighborhood will be a densely built business location, an address for
major companies as well as smaller, growing businesses. With its proximity to the
Elbe embankment, to Baakenhafen and
to Billhafen, as well as to verdant Entenwerder island, Elbbrücken neighborhood
also has great potential as a residential area – provided solutions are found
to reduce noise emissions. As is usual
throughout HafenCity, ground floors will
accommodate public amenities (shops,
restaurants and cafés, social services,
cultural institutions, etc.). At the eastern
point of the quarter, right next to the Elbbrücken bridges a group of tower blocks,
rising to as much as 200 m, is planned,
forming a new entrance to the inner city.
Up to 40 or even 50 stories per tower
would be possible, without impinging
on Hamburg’s classical skyline. Uses that
will come into consideration are offices,
hotels, retail and possibly residential. It
is likely that the skyscrapers will be built
in the last phase of Elbbrücken development, rounding off the urban planning
process for the neighborhood.
Versmannstrasse comes first: most of
the building along this arterial route will
be of six to seven-story block structures
for office use. The built structure to the
east in front of the Freihafen bridge crossing the Elbe and the railroad tracks on the
other hand will be 14-story stand-alone
towers. A broad spectrum of properties
for businesses and great accessibility
offer ideal conditions for dynamic urban
and business growth. Retailing, catering as well as office and hotel uses will
dominate increasingly toward the east of
the quarter. This intelligent structure is
designed to create noise-protected areas
that, despite heavy traffic crossing the
bridges and traversing Versmannstrasse,
will be attractive places to live.
LIVING BY THE WATER
The eastern edge of HafenCity will become an appealing business and residential location. The
infrastructure, including Elbbrücken station, is cureently being put in place
In order to position residential buildings
to minimize noise, the eastern end of
Baakenhafen harbor basin will be partly
filled in. New buildings can then be erected in a double row, with higher commercial buildings on the outside acting as a
shield for the residential blocks on the
inward side toward the water.
View across Baakenhafen to the future center of
Elbbrücken neighborhood, to the winning urban
planning concept by Hosoya Schaefer Architects
(Zurich)
Around the head of Baakenhafen harbor
and Amerigo Vespucci square, a densely
built residential quarter will thus develop that will feature a variety of upmarket
public amenities as ground-floor uses,
such as restaurants and bars and retail
on the square and promenade. There is
also an option to build one waterhouse in
the harbor (as in Baakenhafen next door).
Visitors and residents will experience an
even stronger feeling of closeness to the
water here than is usual even in Hafen
City. An attractive urban space will take
shape, drawing atmosphere from the
connection to water, the central design
element, and imparting it subtly through
the various surrounding levels of height.
The result of the urban planning realization competition will be fed into the
planning of functions and will serve
as the basis for decisions on granting
options even before the zoning plan, so
that tenders can be invited and exclusive
option periods agreed. There will also be
a competition in 2016 for the area’s open
spaces.
SUBWAY AND
R APID TR ANSIT
STATION
Since June 2013, work has been in full
swing on extending the U4 subway line
toward Elbbrücken, and construction of
the Elbbrücken station is also now under
way, with completion planned for the end
of 2018. The convincing winning design
by the Hamburg architects Gerkan, Marg
und Partner (gmp), was presented in
April 2013. The load-bearing steel exterior structure has an interior glass façade
opening up visual sightlines and simultaneously integrating the context of the
Elbe bridges. At the same time, Deutsche
Bahn AG is building a new station for Elbbrücken. The station is supposed to open
up eastern HafenCity as well as parts of
Rothenburgsort, a suburb to the northwest, offering improved connections
with the Hamburg public transport network. As well as the access buildings, the
S-Bahn/rapid transit construction project
also takes in a 70 m long and 5 m wide
glazed pedestrian bridge between the
stations. Although urban development
of the neighborhood will get under way
in 2016, planning and construction of con-
necting roads, quay areas and site preparation started long ago. Work has been
going on to completely renew and widen
the bridge in Zweibrückenstrasse since
2014; the sharp northern bend on Zweibrückenstrasse will be reduced and the
road will be joined directly to Baakenwerderstrasse. The upgrading work running
until summer 2016 will not only provide
much broader passage along the whole
of Zweibrückenstrasse and improve cycle
paths and sidewalks, the road will be
much better protected against flooding.
NEIGHBORHOOD
PROFILE
Area 21.4 ha
Jobs: approx. 13,000
Uses: corporate, offices,
services, hotel, retail, catering
 Homes
approx. 1,000
2016 to 2025
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HAFENCIT Y
ESSENTIALS
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SUSTAINABILITY
A City for the 21st Century
HafenCity is setting leading-edge standards for the future through sustainable urban development.
Intensive re-use of old docks and industrial areas is enlarging Hamburg City’s area by 40 percent
T
he principle behind the development
of HafenCity is in itself an important criterion for sustainability in urban
development since, instead of expanding
Hamburg into land on its periphery, disused inner-city areas of the port are being
regenerated. In addition to recycling of
land, therefore, HafenCity represents a
densification of the inner city which also
embraces many other primarily ecological, as well as economic and social aspects
of sustainability. This is being initiated
at a wide range of levels, for example
in building projects, in supply of heating energy and in the area of mobility.
Through its innovative energy and heating supply system alone, HafenCity will
emit around 50 percent less CO2 than
comparable urban locations. HafenCity
is therefore playing an important part in
Hamburg’s contribution to the national
climate target to reduce CO2 emissions
by 40 percent by 2020 (compared with
the 1990 base level).
EFFICIENT L AND USE
HafenCity is developing on 157 ha of
former port and industrial sites in a central location. In contaminated areas such
as the site of the old gasworks (now
southern Überseequartier), the soil was
removed in an elaborate process, considerably enhancing the ecological value
of this old industrial area and also significantly reducing the area of surface sealing of soil. Intensive use is also being
made of the ground as a resource
through high building density: floor space indexes (FSI) range from 3.7 to 5.6
according to neighborhood, which is in
line with density in other mature European urban centers. In HafenCity, density of uses is correspondingly high, with
110 residents and 354 local employees
per hectare (land surface).
New standards are also being set in
terms of distribution of space. Road
areas take up only 24 percent of land
area (compared with around 40 percent
in Hamburg City between Willy Brandt
Site distribution in HafenCity
Water area*:
29.6 ha
Pontoons on the water
Land area*:
1.4 ha – 5%
109.6 ha
Traffic area
25.2 ha – 23%
Built-up area
34.9 ha – 32%
Public open spaces
27.7 ha – 25%
Private areas, public access
14.5 ha – 13%
(squares, parks, promenades, paths)
Private areas, no public access
7.3 ha – 7 %
Oberhafen Quarter
8.9 ha
*not including Oberhafen Quarter, rail tracks, subway
The proportion of squares, promenades and parks is particularly high in HafenCity. Land use is effective through dense development, construction of buildings on
elevated foundations, and integrated parking
The first neighborhoods – densely built and mixed us, with a high proportion of public space – were built during the past few years on what was once port and
industrial land
street and the Alster, including road surrounds), while 38 percent is available for
publicly accessible open spaces, including the 3.1 km riverfront on the River
Elbe. Thus HafenCity creates a high density of uses with a high proportion of
public spaces and low proportion of road
infrastructure.
the S-Bahn/rapid transit and the virtual
completion of HafenCity construction,
around 35,000 people a day are expected
to be using the U4. There is also a dense
network of bus stops and the first ferry
pier is in service near the Elbphilharmonie (two more – HafenCity University and
Elbbrücken – are to follow).
cars have also been able to refill with climate-friendly hydrogen at the large public gas station opposite the Spiegel publishing house. Since May 2015 even cruise
ships can be supplied with low-pollution
liquid natural gas (LNG) while in port at
the cruise terminal via an LNG hybrid
barge.
CIT Y OF SHORT,
ATTR ACTIVE ROUTES
MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE
MOBILIT Y
LOW-EMISSION THERMAL
ENERGY
HafenCity is also characterized by a
fine-grained horizontal and vertical mix
of a variety of urban uses. As homes,
workplaces, cultural and leisure facilities
and commerce are closely clustered, distances between them are comparatively
short. Reinforced by a fine-meshed network of cycling and footpaths, 70 percent
of which run across promenades, jetties and squares and around 30 percent
right on the waterfront, taking in private
spaces also, it is frequently possible to
do without a car within HafenCity. Just
13 km of road compare with almost 35 km
of walking routes. Cyclists enjoy a total
23 km – in which users of the successful
Hamburg StadtRad cycle rental system
(with six stations in HafenCity already)
also participate.
But it is already easy to reach HafenCity
without a car in any case. Cyclists and
pedestrians can cover the obstacle-free
route from the city center in just a few
minutes. At the same time the public
transport service is also good. The new
U4 subway line, in service since the end
of 2012, is a central element here. The trip
from Jungfernstieg to Überseequartier
takes four minutes – and to HafenCity
University six minutes. At the latest with
the opening of the third subway station at
Elbbrücken in 2018, the intersection with
Ground-breaking transport infrastructure will also characterize eastern
HafenCity, a highly densified urban area.
Am Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken quarters will not only be served by an attractive public transportation service of buses
and subways, the entire zone will function as a kind of research lab for low-pollution mobility. Building developers here
have to fulfill a catalog of sustainable
criteria. For instance, they must commit
to a reduced number of parking slots per
apartment of 0.4, but are expected to
equip 30 percent of spaces in all underground garages with charging equipment
for electric vehicles and to get involved
in developing car-sharing systems overlapping HafenCity’s borders, with a high
proportion of electric vehicles. These are
supposed to include e-bikes, Pedelecs and
other electrically powered micro vehicles.
Models will thus be developed in conjunction with builders which guarantee
reliable and user-friendly mobility supply
which will also increase the attractions of
each individual property, as well as the
neighborhood as a whole.
HafenCity as a whole is part of the Hamburg electromobility model region and
already has two public recharging points
(including Hamburg’s first rapid charging
station). Since February 2012, buses and
Supply of HafenCity’s heating power
is also sustainable. Thus, all buildings
in western HafenCity are connected
to district heating networks driven by
combined heat and power generation
operated by Vattenfall. When combined,
for instance, with solar and geothermal
plants, this produces an efficient blend of
energy with CO2 emissions of 175g/kWh.
To compare: “classical” new heat supply
meeting environmental standards for
individual buildings produces average
CO2 emissions of 240g/kWh.
But even the good performance of the
western HafenCity district heating network will be well outstripped in eastern
HafenCity. A decentralized, modular local
heating supply network makes it possible
to cut CO2 emissions to just 89 g/kWh.
Thanks to its decentralized structure, the
supply system operated by Enercity can
grow in parallel with the city district. The
first building block in the network is the
Oberhafen “powerhouse”. Only its chimney is visible from outside. Part of an old
goods shed can supply thermal energy to
the whole of eastern HafenCity. Hidden
behind the red-brick walls, the combined
heat and power generating plant produces a total thermal output of 10 MW.
This smallest of spaces is fitted out with
state of the art technology: including a
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parked in the underground garages inside
building plinths, which are flood-protected. Above-ground parking slots are not
allowed in buildings. Stationary vehicles
therefore consume little public space (see
p.64 ff). The only exceptions are Kaispeicher A, an existing building that is part of
the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall, and the
converted Heinemann warehouse.
THE HAFENCIT Y
ECOL ABEL IN GOLD
AND SILVER
HafenCity’s fine-grained horizontal and vertical mix of a variety of urban uses means homes, workplaces,
cultural and leisure facilities and commerce are often closely clustered
combined heat and power generating
plant, two natural gas-fired furnaces, a
heat accumulation plant and an electric
transformer substation to feed the energy into the local power network.
Outstanding among the distinguishing
features of the heating concept in eastern
HafenCity is that it uses a significant proportion of renewable energy – peak loads
are the only exception.
LIFE BY THE WATER
A loose-knit building structure close to
expanses of water also has a positive environmental impact. This results in a reduction of summer heat island effects in the
city and thus leads to lower ventilation
and air-conditioning requirements – and
more comfortable conditions at home
and in the office. However, the waterside
situation and corresponding proximity to the port requires – as is the case
with traffic noise in eastern HafenCity –
high levels of protection. Positioning of
buildings, orientation of living space and
special window surrounds help to minimize the effects of noise. Port planning
regulations also limit emissions from the
working port south of the Elbe to their
current level.
Another important aspect of sustainability is to cater for long-term flood
protection requirements. Because of
its position in the tidal part of the River Elbe, HafenCity is subject to considerable risks of flooding in cases of
extreme storm surges. HafenCity was
therefore built on compacted artificial
foundations – “Warften” – raising it to
8–9 m over sea level above the former
level of the port and not, as is usual for
low-lying areas, surrounded by dikes or
provided with flood defense barriers. To
protect it against high water therefore,
a new formation has taken shape, with
the artificial “Warft” that forms a flexible boundary between water and land:
lower-lying areas such as promenades
and parts of squares are designed to provide expansion surfaces and are flooded
during severe storm surges – in such cases
HafenCity is robbed of some of its public
space for an hour or two, but at higher levels it continues to function as a “normal”
city. Another side effect is that cars can be
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH unveiled
Germany’s first certification system for
sustainable building in 2007. The gold
Ecolabel for extraordinary attainment is
designed to motivate developers to handle resources responsibly. The system
evaluates the ecological, economic and
social sustainability of a projected building. Initially the Ecolabel applied only to
residential, office and special construction. But since 2010 retail or hotel uses
and multi-uses are also being certified.
Buildings that meet at least three of
five categories of special or outstanding
attainment are certified. The developer
submits the application, presenting
planning documentation demonstrating
the special or outstanding sustainability
of its building. After positive examination by an independent auditor, the project receives preliminary certification.
This gives builders and developers the
opportunity to convince potential buyers or tenants of the sustainability of
their desired property in the early marketing phase. The final certificate is
awarded after the project is completed,
when implementation of Category 1
energy standards can be documented.
Certification breaks down
into five categories:
• reduction of primary energy consumption well beyond statutory requirements for running a building (for residential buildings the passive house
standard applies)
• sustainable management of public
goods (e.g. using advanced sanitary
equipment to cut water consumption);
efficient use of publicly accessible
areas and family friendliness in hotel
and retail buildings
• use of ecofriendly construction materials free of halogen, volatile solvents
or biocides. Use of certified tropical
wood is recognized
• special consideration of health and
well-being such as comfortable room
temperature, non-allergenic fixtures
and fittings, reverberation and sound
insulation, glare protection and air circulation in air-conditioned spaces
• sustainable building facility operations, including low maintenance or use
of durable materials and barrier-free
mobility throughout.
The HafenCity Ecolabel has proven
a huge success. So far 30 projects have
been certified or pre-certified, of which
29 attained the “gold” level, including
Katharinenschule primary school, the
HafenCity University building, the Elbe
Arcades on Magdeburger Hafen as well
as the Musicians’ House and Ecumenical Forum on Shanghaiallee. The first
confirmed certified holder was Unilever
headquarters on Strandkai.
Since then, the highest grade of Hafen
City sustainability certification has also
gone to the Spiegel publishing group
building, Centurion Commercial Center,
as well as the NIDUS Loft (the first residential building).
Meanwhile, tendering invitations now
increasingly call for compliance with the
gold criteria. In Am Lohsepark neighborhood all buildings on sites belonging to
Hamburg special fund for city and port
are to be built to gold standard. These
criteria are also regular for the eastern
neighborhoods of Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken. To ensure that the very tough
standards for the Ecolabel keep pace with
current developments, requirements are
revised regularly, taking into consideration, for instance, amendments to the
Energy Saving Directive.
The Osaka 9 InfoPavilion on Störtebeker Ufer presents an overview of HafenCity sustainability concepts
SUSTAINABLE BRIDGE
BUILDING
OSAK A 9 –
SUSTAINABILIT Y PAVILION
Sustainable construction in HafenCity is
not confined to buildings. Baakenhafen
bridge has also set standards in many
ways. As one of just five pilot projects
throughout Germany, it was planned and
realized in line with specific sustainability
aspects and rated “very good” according
to the criteria to assess “Sustainability of
road bridges in the life cycle” developed
by the German Federal Institute for Roads.
An overview of the HafenCity sustainability concept can be seen in the
“Osaka 9” Sustainability Pavilion on the
embankment promenade on Magdeburger Hafen harbor basin. Core topics in
the exhibition are sustainable ground use
and mixed use city structure, energy and
time-saving mobility structures, as well
as ecological power supply and sustainable buildings. The Info Pavilion is also the
starting point for tours and is a popular
location for events right by the water.
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CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS
Curtain Up: HafenCity as a Stage for Art and Culture
HafenCity has been discovered by the art and cultural community, which is finding a widespread following. Institutions with
international appeal are emerging in conspicuous sites
cultural development. Since then theater performances have followed, such
as Thalia Theater’s specially conceived
summer programs, delighting the public
in its temporary theater tent every year.
But also Art and Culture in HafenCity, in
successful cooperation with three cultural greats in the Hamburg culture scene
(Kampnagel, the Hamburg Kunstverein
and the Deichtorhallen), has initiated
several art projects since 2011, driving
forward the debate on the opportunities for social coexistence in the new
urban public sphere emerging in HafenCity. The HafenCity cultural coordination
circle also brings together many parties
and activities. This panel of experts, set
up in May 2005 by the Hamburg Culture
Ministry, holds regular meetings with
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH representatives to promote the arts and culture in
the new city district. In developing concepts, it takes on a share of responsibility
for development of the range of cultural
activities in HafenCity.
Many new settings for art and culture have emerged in HafenCity – if the weather is right, in the open air
too. Design of open spaces always had this in mind
SUMMER IN
HAFENCIT Y
HafenCity has become a popular and
often permanent venue for events of
almost every size, from pop-up street
performances through to major events.
From the Long Night of the Museums,
Hamburg Architecture Summer, to the
Harbour Front literary festival, the Elbjazz festival – the list of events is a long
one. The squares and promenades of
HafenCity frequently serve as open air
stages, auditoria or dance floors. Popular magnets for visitors are Summer in
HafenCity, an annual event with open-
air tango and swing, evening readings
in a maritime atmosphere, or popular
children’s building sites. The same goes
for the Körber foundation’s series of toplevel discussions open to the public in the
KörberForum.
Other widely varying events attracting an increasingly mixed public range
from the former East German refrigerator ship MS Stubnitz, a music venue featuring everything from Pakistani jazz to
hardcore electro music, now anchored in
Baakenhafen, to the relaxed Club 20457
on Osakaallee or after-work sessions in
summer at the Sunset Lounge in front of
the Unilever building.
Whether for a jazz concert, theater performance or as a platform for readings, HafenCity is a popular location for events and well established as a venue
Cultural and artistic uses play a crucial inspirational role in the HafenCity development process
U
p until 2003, HafenCity was a big
blank spot on Hamburg’s cultural
map. Its status as a free-port and the
Port Development Act prohibited any
type of usage that was unrelated to port
activities. Art and culture therefore only
subsequently gradually found their place
here. However, cultural and artistic uses
are a very important driving force in the
new district’s development. The decision
to maintain structures typical of a port
wherever possible was therefore a cultural signpost in itself, providing a backdrop for culture in HafenCity: the harbor
basins, quay walls, cranes and a few warehouses were restored. At the same time,
from the very start, the needs of art and
culture were taken into special account
in the design of squares and promenades
throughout HafenCity. Thus, in addition
to major cultural institutions such as the
Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall and the
International Maritime Museum Hamburg, many new settings with history are
taking shape for art and culture – and, on
the southern embankment of Oberhafen,
a permanent arts and creative quarter is
developing.
CULTURE SCENE
WITH NUMEROUS
ACTORS
Over time, special cooperative and
organizational structures relating to
HafenCity have emerged time and
again. In addition to initiatives such
as Musical LandArt was a cooperation
between the Hamburg Arts Foundation, Körber Foundation and HafenCity
Hamburg GmbH to launch an artists’
competition in 2004/2005, which was
an important landmark in the district’s
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FRESH IMPULSE FOR THE
CREATIVE ECONOMY
Oberhafen, with its creative and cultural scene, is increasingly generating inspiration (see p. 40ff). It has been used for
all kinds of creative uses for ten years or
more and is a venue for large and small
cultural events on a regular basis. But it is
only since the majority of space has been
freed up for artistic and cultural uses that
Oberhafen has finally blossomed, becoming the nucleus of a creative and cultural
neighborhood accommodating the short
film festival, dance performances, creative co-working spaces, Gängerviertel
e.V. (in temporary premises), or locations
like Halle 424, an old storage shed combining a modern gallery with a cool jazz
and classical music location. Oberhafen
is also excellently linked to the rest of
HafenCity as well as newly developed
cultural activities in Rothenburgsort
and City Süd, not to mention the nearby
Museum Mile.
Not to be outdone, Elbtorquartier is also
putting itself on the creative and cultural map. Following in the footsteps of iF
Design, which arrived in 2013, the Hamburg design network designxport, another
heavyweight design presence, opened in
HafenCity in July 2014. Gradually Magdeburger Hafen is turning into an exciting
forum for ideas and a public showcase for
the local, regional and international creative sector, with nearby Hongkongstrasse
increasingly establishing itself as an
address for small agencies and start-ups.
An important pioneering role in
HafenCity was played, of course, by the
annual “Hamburger Jedermann” theatrical production by Michael Batz. It was a
permanent feature of Hamburg’s cultural
calendar long before HafenCity was in a
position to become a place for the arts,
staged every summer since the 1990s
against the spectacular backdrop of the
Speicherstadt.
MUSEUM BET WEEN PAST
AND PRESENT
The International Maritime Museum
Hamburg lent HafenCity a special luster
when it opened its doors back in the summer of 2008 in the old Kaispeicher B, a
warehouse dating from 1879 (architects:
Wilhelm Emil Meerwein, Bernhard Hanssen); it is actually the oldest warehouse in
HafenCity and the Speicherstadt.
From the summer of 2005, architect
Mirjana Markovic extensively renovated
the listed warehouse at Elbtorquartier,
With a crowded program of events and
exhibits, the whole of HafenCity functions as a cultural magnet for residents,
local employees and many visitors
Impressive architecture, unique situation: the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall rises like a giant wave above the building of the former Kaispeicher A warehouse.
The concert hall is a spectacular landmark for Hamburg and HafenCity and a great venue for music – a major visitor attraction
converting it into a museum but leaving
its characteristic architecture intact. The
ten floors, or “decks”, of the museum,
covering 11,500 sqm, house an exhibition
based on the Peter Tamm private maritime collection. Kaispeicher B and the
adjacent Heinemann-Speicher building
also accommodate the Institute of Shipping and Marine History and a library,
including an archive.
It was at around the same time that
the Prototyp automobile museum also
moved into HafenCity. The permanent
exhibition in the listed former premises
of the Harburger Gummi-Kamm-Compagnie, on Shanghaiallee, is also based
on the private collection of the museum founder. It includes rare automobile
icons, including the legendary Porsche
64, as well as original cars of Sebastian
Vettel and Michael Schumacher.
In the immediate vicinity of the historic
Speicherstadt other creative and cultural uses have also opened, with several
museums here describing the past of this
listed ensemble.
ELBPHILHARMONIE
CONCERT HALL
It is hard to overlook HafenCity’s international landmark, the Elbphilharmonie
Concert Hall. Swiss star architects Herzog
& de Meuron’s spectacular concert venue
has been erected atop mighty Kaispeicher
A, a cocoa warehouse built between 1963
and 1966 to plans by architect Werner
Kallmorgen. Its cubic shape and façades
remain intact beneath a unique architectonic hybrid housing concert halls, a
hotel with 250 rooms, 45 apartments and
a garage offering parking for around 500
cars.
The former warehouse building is
crowned by an undulating, curved glass
structure, up to 110 m high, blending elements of historic port architecture and
contemporary building design, port tradition and the district’s new identity. Sandwiched between the original building and
the new wave-crested crown, a public
plaza at a height of 37 m offers fantastic
views of the harbor, HafenCity, the River
Elbe and the rest of the city. It is also both
the interface between the original and
new parts of the building, and between
the public open space and the other uses.
The warehouse shell will be used for car
parking, as well as backstage areas and
space for all-round musical education.
The new glass superstructure will contain
two auditoria holding audiences of 2,150
and 550 respectively. The unveiling of the
first designs by architects Herzog & de
Meuron in 2003 caused an international
sensation. The commitment of Hamburg
citizens was also unequalled: more than
7,500 have supported its construction
so far. However, the city’s contribution
will be considerable due to the dramatically increased cost of the building to
EUR 789 million. The Elbphilharmonie is
to be opened on January 11, 2017, although
the public plaza will be accessible from
November 2016.
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SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Living in the Center: HafenCity as a Place
of Neighborly Coexistence
Western HafenCity has become an urban place, home to about 2,500 people. Despite their very different
backgrounds and lifestyles, neighborly networking is already advanced
The sheer variety of concepts, price levels and architecture convinces many people to live in HafenCity
Grasbrookpark, completed in August 2013, is a verdant play park with lots of play and recreational facilities for children as well as adults
T
he variety of housing in HafenCity is
already quite exceptional. It includes
a smaller scale mix of apartments to
rent or to buy in different price brackets,
although the spectrum ranges from publicly subsidized rental housing through to
the luxury segment and also takes in the
special requirements of groups such as
musicians, designers, seniors as well as
the physically disabled or chronically sick.
Building cooperatives and joint building
ventures have played a special role in
the development of living in HafenCity,
catering for a mid-price segment of the
newbuild market and often acting as an
important catalyst in forming a neighborly culture. In addition, because of sharp rises in the cost of rental and owned homes
in Hamburg’s inner districts, 20 percent
of residential building plots in HafenCity
have been put out to tender for subsidized housing since 2010 – the proportion
has risen to one third since 2011. At the
same time a modified concept bidding
procedure was introduced in HafenCity,
in which 70 percent of a bid accounts for
the concept and 30 percent for the offer
price for the plot. This will enhance the
diversity of the range of housing offered
even more, making way for rentals in the
subsidized sector of EUR 6.20/sqm (housing subsidy scheme 1) and EUR 8.30/sqm
(second tier subsidy) in the lower price
segment.
The wide spectrum of living concepts,
price levels and architectural styles
available attracts many people to live in
HafenCity. Nevertheless sometimes
households are prepared to spend more
on housing direct costs in favor of lower
mobility costs, a better work-life balance
and more time. With their workplaces,
daily requirements, schools and leisure
facilities on the doorstep, family and
work can be more easily combined than
elsewhere.
FAMILY FRIENDLY
HOUSING
The profile of residents is thus in line
with a definite trend: the proportion of
households with children registered in
HafenCity continues to grow. It is currently 16.9 percent which means that
HafenCity has long overtaken other popular inner-city districts such as Eimsbüttel
(12.6 percent), Winterhude (12.4) or Neustadt (11.3).
This family orientation will increase
markedly in coming years compared with
more mature residential areas of the
inner city, thanks to the influence of subsidized housing construction in Hafen
City. To continue to meet the needs of
the many children and teenagers, social
infrastructure is being continuously
expanded. So far three kindergartens
with around 300 places are open, with
another under construction. Planning for
two more kindergartens in Baakenhafen
and Am Lohsepark are at an advanced
stage. Complementing Katharinenschule
school, another primary school will be
established in eastern HafenCity, and in
central Lohsepark there will be a secondary school comprising gymnasium and
comprehensive departments. The primary in Baakenhafen should open in 2018.
In combination with a kindergarten and
other facilities, it will develop into an education and family center. The secondary
school at Lohsepark should be open for
pupils in 2019. Special importance attaches to the three planned play-cum-community houses in Grasbrookpark, Lohsepark and Baakenhafen. Competitive
tenders for concepts for the projects, as
well as the planned KinderKulturHaus
children’s arts center on Strandkai, will
take place in 2016, so that construction
can begin in 2017.
Families are also attracted by the short
distances, well connected routes and
public open spaces of HafenCity. Squares,
parks and promenades offer a great variety of recreation and play possibilities.
For instance, apart from playgrounds and
fitness apparatus outdoors, there are also
two basketball courts and a temporary
soccer kickabout area. But Oberhafen will
also have a nine-a-side pitch which will
also be available to clubs and schools, to
be laid out from 2017.
FAMILIES, RETIREES AND
YOUNG COUPLES
In addition to young families, another
very prevalent group found in HafenCity
is of couples aged over 50. Often they have
taken the chance to reorient their lives
after their children have moved out and
have pinpointed HafenCity as the place to
live. In the desire to open a new (residential) chapter in their lives, they have chosen
a place to live which offers cultural events,
a socially alive environment and proximity
to neighbors including young, career-driven couples and single people. Residents
are also particularly attracted to HafenCity
by its emotionally positive waterfront situation, individual home types, and good
transport infrastructure.
At 46.6 percent, the quota of one-person
households is lower than the Hamburg
average of 54.3 percent and significantly
below the average in inner-city districts,
where it is often already more than 60
percent.
ENCOUR AGING
INITIATIVE AND
DIALOG
Whether for families, sports cracks or the
culture-inclined, a stimulating social community has already developed in western
HafenCity. Many residents are active in the
community, for instance organizing the
digital residents’ forum hafencity-leben.
de, for instance, or the HafenCity-Zeitung,
run by locals (www.hafencity-news.de).
In addition there are regular local get-togethers, special occasions such as a flea
market or neighborhood parties. While
Störtebeker SV sports club offers a wide
range of sports, Spielhaus HafenCity e.V.
looks after the interests of HafenCity’s
youngest residents. Self-organization by
residents, business people and proprietors
will soon receive support from a special
quarter management, for which principles
were worked out in 2016. An appropriate
body (trust or association) is to be set up,
to be financed by small contributions from
all owners and users (which also includes
owners of buildings). The revenue will be
used to run the community houses and to
financially support other neighborhood
functions.
HafenCity Hamburg GmbH actively nurtures residents’ identification with the
new district, supporting initiatives and
regularly seeking dialog with residents,
whether through direct contact or through
regular information and discussion events,
for example. It sees it as a responsibility
not only to establish a diverse mix of uses
and social milieus, but to ensure that even
where friction arises, equilibrium is maintained. Proactive impulses include promoting social neighborliness and offering
advice during the process. Thus the first
playground was developed in conjunction with resident parents, while school
pupils contributed ideas to the planning of
Grasbrookpark and Lohsepark. In a future
workshop, a students’ committee at Katharinenschule primary tried to pinpoint the
actual needs of children and adolescents
in a public urban place. Pre-school and primary school children in grades 1 to 3 also
attended a participation camp in 2015 for
Baakenhafen, giving them a say in the
design of open spaces in HafenCity.
The Netzwerk HafenCity association
has been a force in sharing responsibility
for HafenCity’s development since 2009,
involving itself in finding cooperative solutions to everyday issues for all HafenCity
residents. In addition, it initiates events
and festivities, increasingly also in cooperation with surrounding districts, thus
making a real contribution to neighborly
coexistence – in HafenCity and beyond. In
May 2013 a business community of interest (IGG) came into existence under the
aegis of the network. It aims to bring all
business operators in HafenCity into an
efficient network to promote communication between them which will further
strengthen the location.
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PUBLIC OPEN SPACES
The City of Plazas, Parks and Promenades
HafenCity’s exciting, new urban spaces on and beside the water enrich Hamburg. Squares, promenades and parks are no mere
urban development tools but distinctive elements of the cityscape in their own right
City of short distances: 70 percent of the dense network of pedestrian and cycle routes in HafenCity lead across promenades, jetties and squares. Some 30
percent are routed along the waterside. Already in use, Buenos Aires quay (photo) links Magdeburger Hafen and Baakenhafen. In the background, the ECE/
Strabag building site
SPACIOUS GREEN SPACES
AND PL AY AREAS
The public open spaces by the water are well established meeting places for visitors and workers and act as venues for many events. Here is the promenade by
In the northwest, Sandtorpark, covering around 6,000 sqm, with its mounds,
trees and a grassy play area designed for a
variety of uses, is the urban planning element unifying the materials and ground
surface design used for the Magellan Terraces with those around the open space
surrounding the park. The green area,
opened in April 2011, is also intensively
used by neighboring Katharinen school:
its pupils were also involved in design-
ing play and recreational facilities for
young and old in nearby Grasbrookpark.
The park, at the interface with Strandkai neighborhood, was inaugurated
in summer 2013. With a play ship as its
centerpiece, the popularity of this leafy
play park as a meeting place spreads well
beyond HafenCity limits.
Central HafenCity with Überseequartier and the surroundings of Magdeburger Hafen was designed by the renowned
Catalan landscape architect Beth Galí
and her firm BB + GG Arquitectes (Barcelona).
ON FOOT FROM
THE INNER ALSTER
TO MAGDEBURGER
HAFEN
The vitality of the area around Magdeburger Hafen is increasingly melding
HafenCity and the existing city center
together. The Inner Alster is only 900 m
away and thus just a few minutes’ walk
from Magdeburger Hafen, interconnected by the central Domplatz axis. Inside
HafenCity, this links Überseequartier,
Elbtorquartier and Brooktorquartier,
Grasbrookhafen harbor basin
T
he significance of urban open space
for HafenCity is clear from just a few
key figures: 25 percent of its land area –
as much as 28 ha – will be public open
space. All of this, whether parks or promenades, is on the waterside, and 10.5 km
of shoreline will be made. Water surfaces
in harbor basins and the River Elbe are all
“islands of fresh air”, opening up views. In
addition to the public open spaces, which
are closely interlocked and well connected to one another, publicly accessible private open spaces account for a further 13
percent. A mere seven percent of all open
space is inaccessible to the public. Open
space therefore accounts for 45 percent
of all of HafenCity – with 31 percent built
and 24 percent devoted to traffic.
MEDITERR ANEAN
AIRINESS WITH AUSTERE
PORT INFLUENCES
Architectural firm EMBT Arquitectes
Associats designed most of the largely
completed urban spaces in the western
section of HafenCity, an elaborate and
esthetic interplay between water and
land; severe forms typical of a port contrast with airier Mediterranean influences. Two large terraced squares were
created at the heads of the Sandtorhafen
and Grasbrookhafen harbor basins. The
Magellan Terraces (5,600 sqm), completed in 2005, are stepped down to
the water on several levels resembling
an amphitheater. With its rather hard
surfaces and unusual architecture, this
plaza has an urban character with multiple functions.
From the terraces, the gaze sweeps
across to the Traditional Ship Harbor in
Sandtorhafen, opened in 2008; 5,800
sqm of floating pontoons rise and fall
with the tide, providing permanent moorings for up to 30 historic watercraft. The
Marco Polo Terraces (7,800 sqm), opened
in 2007, break down into smaller elements - grass islands, wooden decks and
trees. They appear more sheltered, green
and soft. Promenades along the quays
link these varied urban spaces.
South of the Marco Polo Terraces, a stroll
leads to the Elbterrassen steps, where
cruise ship fans congregate, after passing through Grosser Grasbrook and the
publicly accessible mall in Unilever House.
Vasco da Gama plaza, also adjoining a
promenade, is a popular local meeting
place with outside eating areas and space
for basketball.
Squares, promenades and parks are not just urban planning devices in HafenCity, but individual elements putting their stamp on the cityscape
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PUBLIC OPEN SPACES
which are connected, for instance via
Busanbrücke bridge, opened at the
end of 2010. Along Osakaallee, an
embankment promenade up to 12 m wide
borders the western side of Magdeburger
Hafen.
Ramps, steps and clumps of green
shrubs lead from road level onto the historic quay level. The difference in elevation integrates the site for the Osaka 9
sustainability pavilion; the ecological
aspects of HafenCity have been exhibited
here since 2011.
At the head of Magdeburger Hafen
is the most important entrance to central HafenCity, Dar es Salaam square, an
attractive place that faces south to the
harbor basin, with sweeping views to the
Elbe. The León-Brücke bridge links the
square with Brooktorpromenade, opened
2010 and leading alongside the DNV Germanischer Lloyd building ensemble to
Ericusspitze and the Spiegel building. A
special design feature here is the 30 m
stone “sofa”. WES & Partner Landschaftsarchitekten (Hamburg) were responsible
for most of the design of this open space.
The Ericuspromenade, the continuation
of Brooktorpromenade, ready since fall
2011, is an invitation to change levels.
On the eastern side of Magdeburger
Hafen, the promenade has led along the
new Elbe Arcades on two levels since fall
2013 – by the water and at the flood-protected warft level. It continues along the
harbor basin down to the new HafenCity
University building. This now links the
square in front of Kaispeicher B with the
open spaces at HCU since, as of August
2014, the pier has continued southwards under Magdeburger Brücke bridge
through to Lohsepark, Baakenhafen basin
and the Elbe, offering a through route
without crossing any roads.
LOHSEPARK IN
THE CENTER
The winning open space concept by Vogt
Landschaftsarchitekten AG (Zurich) creates the basic framework for Lohsepark,
the largest contiguous park in HafenCity.
Covering 4.4 ha, the centrally sited park
will incorporate wide-ranging urban,
social and ecological functions. Generous sweeps of grass broken up by loosely
winding pathways, seating areas and play
opportunities will attract residents both
young and old, as well as visitors from
other places and people working locally.
On the long sides of the park, terraces
open out to the street, providing an unobstructed transition between the green
area and its urban surroundings, interlinking built structures and open space.
Although the park has looked quite green
since 2013, many areas in the central section were first opened to the public on
the occasion of the HSH Nordbank Run
in HafenCity in 2015. This included play
areas for children, a stone grotto, as well
as a streetball pitch. By summer 2016, the
whole park will be ready to be handed
over to the public.
One fundamental part of the park, yet
to be created in and around it, will be
the three-part denk.mal Hanover Railroad Station, a memorial to the history
of deportation in Hamburg. This will be
made up of a central place of remembrance based on the relics of Platform 2
of the former station: a seam slashing
through the park from the former station
forecourt along the course of the historic
rail tracks to the platform, and an exhibition center, to be built on the western side
of the park on Steinschanze street with a
direct visual relationship to the historic
memorial.
Western HafenCity’s urban spaces make much of the interaction of water and land. They combine the severe forms typical of the port with lighter, more Mediterranean influences. In the backgorund, Sandtorhafen and the Elbe
City of promenades and bridges: a through route leads from Dar es Salaam square under Magdeburger Brücke bridge to Lohsepark, Baakenhafen and the Elbe
without crossing a single road
THE LEAFY
EAST OF HAFENCIT Y
Beside the Elbe the park joins up with
a 30 m-wide promenade, leading along
the river to Entenwerder, and passing
through the new neighborhoods of Am
Baakenhafen and Elbbrücken. The open
spaces in Baakenhafen, in which the focus
is on homes for families with children
and a multitude of integrated sport and
recreational uses, were planned by Atelier Loidl (Berlin). One of the convincing
aspects of their concept was the design
of 1.6 ha Baakenpark, an artificial promontory in the center of the harbor basin. In
2016/17 it will be given its exciting topography: different levels, including a 14.8 m
“mountain” Himmelsberg; tree planting;
lawns and a spacious play landscape on
the theme of flotsam and jetsam. A footbridge designed by gmp (Hamburg) and
Knippers Helbig (Stuttgart) will link the
peninsula to the northern embankment
and should be finished in 2016. The opening of Baakenpark itself will be in fall 2017.
Development of the eastern quarters
began with a flourish in June 2013, when
Baakenhafen bridge, the winner of many
awards, was lifted into place. The bridge,
designed by the London firm of Wilkinson
Eyre Architects and Berlin’s Ingenieurbüro
Happold, gives cyclists plenty of space on
both sides of the carriageway on their
way to and from southern Baakenhafen.
L AST URBAN
PL ANNING DESIGN
COMPETITION
Further to the east, Elbbrücken neighborhood is shifting more sharply into
development focus. In fall 2015, the last
urban planning competition for Hafen
City came to a successful conclusion, tying
up the final loose ends of urban planning
for the whole of HafenCity. The winning
design by Hosoya Schaefer Architects
(Zurich) cleverly mediates between the
public and spatial framework. A clearly
defined neighborhood will develop, with
a diverse range of public spaces, a highrise dominating the core of the quarter at
the head of Baakenhafen basin, as well as
excellent connections to the subway and
rapid transit station at Elbbrücken. The
competition to design open space for this
area will be launched in 2016.
In addition to public open spaces, many
private areas in HafenCity are also accessible to all residents, local employees and
visitors. Public and private land is closely interlocked; many spaces in private
ownership are subject to general rights
of way or, as in Überseequartier, comparable rights to public thoroughfares. This
ensures, for instance, that private areas
between buildings remain passable to
pedestrians and sometimes cyclists – and
that they have a dense network of paths
and well-connected leisure areas at their
disposal.
Many new routes and places close to the water are particularly attractive to walkers and cyclists, in many
places with views of the maritime port surroundings – as here, a residential street at Grosser Grasbrook
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INFRASTRUCTURE
A new Infrastructure as the Basis
for Urban Development
Proximity to water, ground conditions and flood risks present
particular challenges
H
afenCity is characterized by infrastructural features specific to the site:
the area is a low-lying island in the River
Elbe, indented by several harbor basins.
The prerequisites for its urban use are
therefore new internal and external connections and cross-links as well as effective flood protection.
A particular challenge is the east-west
orientation of the historic warehouses in
the Speicherstadt, forming a barrier
between HafenCity and the City like the
waterways extending east-west in parallel and broad Willy Brandt street. These
factors meant, for instance, that efficient
public transport connections could only
work well underground via subway.
Furthermore, the HafenCity site is situated outside Hamburg’s dike line on
low-lying land not protected from flooding at 4–5.5 m above sea level. Because of
its location in the Elbe, separate and elab-
orate protection measures are required:
HafenCity hugs the Elbe for more than
3.1 km and has a total waterfront of over
10.5 km, including the harbor basins.
In the past, the HafenCity area was laid
out as an industrial and port district. The
extension of the modern port facilities
that began in 1862 gave this area the typical appearance which largely remains
today, with harbor basins and docks constituting HafenCity’s character.
In many places, Am Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai, for instance, the historic quay
structure could be partially conserved
and carefully restored. New quay walls
were built in sections where the old substance was too damaged or previously did
not exist.
The concept of elevated foundations and flood protection in HafenCity
(showing the example of Dallmannkai and Kaiserkai)
Transport development
in HafenCity
Subway
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HafenCity is served by a complex and efficient transport
system. Public transport services play the main role. The central
transport artery is the new U4 subway line connecting with
the rapid transit service at Elbbrücken (S-Bahn) station, complemented by a dense network of bus services
Flood protection
in HafenCity: 8.30 m msl
Highest flood level
in Hamburg 1976:
6.45 m msl
Promenade: 4.50 m msl
Tidal range:
mean high water:
(MHW): 2.10 m msl
mean low water:
(MLW): -1.50 m msl
All buildings and roads in HafenCity are built on warfts – compacted foundations. This creates a whole new city topography, as shown here for
Dallmannkai/Kaiserkai
FLOOD PROTECTION
HAS PRIORIT Y
Protection against flooding was a crucial precondition for the development of
HafenCity. Surrounding it with a dike was
ruled out, since it would have had to be in
place around the whole 127 ha land area of
the new district before realization of the
first buildings. A rapid start to development would not have been possible; and,
as well as generating huge upfront costs,
the urban spatial relationship to water so
characteristic of HafenCity would have
been prevented.
Instead, the new buildings and roads
are built on plinths or “Warfts” which are
formed at a height of 8–9 m above sea level, thus protecting against flooding. Their
interiors also offer space for flood-protected underground garages. Promenades and
many squares, on the other hand, remain
at the area’s previous level of 4.5–5.5 m
above sea level, which maintains the close
relationship to water and creates high
quality, usable public spaces. All roads
are built at a minimum of 7.5 m or 8.3 m
above sea level, protected against floods.
New bridges are built in flood-protected
form, or old ones upgraded and lifted. One
exception to the rule of raising road levels
is the street running between HafenCity
and the historic Speicherstadt. Elevation
of the whole width of Am Sandtorkai/
Brooktorkai would have been extremely
difficult and would have made no sense
due to the proximity of the Speicherstadt.
In the rare and brief occurrence of a storm
surge in combination with high water,
new flood-safe access routes to HafenCity
have been created. The Kibbelstegbrücke
bridges are one example: under normal
conditions they function as an attractive
route for pedestrians and cyclists; in flood
conditions they provide safe access for fire
and rescue services.
The second flood-secure traffic axis to the
dike-bound city center is via Oberbaumbrücke bridge and Brooktorkai, Shanghaiallee and Überseeallee roads. These
routes are also open to private vehicles in
case of flooding. Additional flood-secure
links will be formed via the bridges Grossmarktbrücke and Freihafenbrücke, both of
which connect with flood-protected Versmannstrasse.
NEW ROADS AND BRIDGES
An additional challenge is the ground
itself in the new city district. HafenCity’s
location on the Elbe marshes is subject to
the alluvial influence of the Elbe, which
means that the upper layers of soil are
made up mostly of clay and glacial sediment. As so-called cohesive layers,
they are highly water absorbent, which
means they cannot bear heavy weight.
Sand, which is load bearing, begins further down. This is why all buildings in
HafenCity are built on piles. These are
usually driven around 20 m deep into
the earth, which transfers the weight to
the loadbearing sand layers. In Strandkai neighborhood a departure from pile
foundations is taking place for the first
time: basements are actually being excavated down to the level of loadbearing
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sand. Thus, at a level of around 6 m below
sea-level, a new building will be constructed for the first time in HafenCity on
shallow foundations.
For road building, preloading is used to
raise the level temporarily to 10 m: the
weight of heaped up sand presses any
water out of the cohesive layers of ground
below, creating a stable foundation suitable for road building. When this process
is finished, the sand preload is removed
down to the future level of the road, so
that piping and conduit can be laid and
roads built.
Roads in HafenCity are planned in at
an early stage but the realization of
road surfacing, pavements, cycle lanes,
tree-planting or parking bays only takes
place gradually and in close coordination with construction firms. Because
road surfaces would be largely destroyed
during structural engineering, almost all
carriageways are given a temporary surface. After completion of the surrounding
buildings, the final surface is then laid and
finished, together with ancillary surfaces,
cycle paths/strips and tree planting.
THROUGH THE CIT Y BY
CAR OR ON FOOT
Four road bridges currently connect
HafenCity with the city center. Am Sandtorkai/Brooktorkai, a street running
east-west, serves as western HafenCity’s
central access road link northwards. From
it, traffic fans out along to the south; primarily via Shanghaiallee and Osakaallee.
Then it continues across Kornhausbrücke
bridge along an extension of the so-called
“Domplatz axis” thruway. On a boulevard
running from Überseeboulevard across
Kornhausbrücke and Domplatz, Jungfernstieg is just ten minutes’ walk away.
NEW BRIDGES OVER
BA AKENHAFEN
The first bridge over Baakenhafen harbor links the northern part of the neighborhood of Baakenhafen with its southern part. Much admired for its range of
functions, the bridge has been showered
with praise and prizes – including the title
“Structure of the Year” from the Ham-
burg architects and engineers association (AIV). The 170 m-long Baakenhafen
bridge, opened in August 2013, marked
another important milestone in the rapid development of eastern HafenCity in
which work on the infrastructural basis
also continues apace.
Since summer 2013 a two-lane traffic
diversion has been in place during work
in parallel on the neighborhood’s most
crucial traffic connections: the new Versmannstrasse and the extension of the U4
subway to Elbbrücken. The temporary
diversion takes traffic across Baakenhafen bridge along the Elbe embankment
to the Elbe bridges, Elbbrücken. In 2017
the southern carriageway of new Versmannstrasse will be ready for use. Then
traffic can be redirected and the Elbe
embankment newly landscaped as a
leafy promenade. A number of cycling
and footpaths will also be laid out and a
pedestrians’ and cyclists’ bridge over the
new Baakenpark peninsula will connect
the north and south of eastern HafenCity
from 2016.
ENVIRONMENTALLY
FRIENDLY TR ANSPORT
HafenCity’s central situation and good
accessibility are increasingly an invitation
to leave the car behind – particularly as
HafenCity, with its short distances, is ideal for cycling and walking with its branching, unusually dense network of paths.
The majority of cycling and footpaths are
isolated from motorized traffic, running
along promenades, piers and squares,
often along the waterside. Cycle lanes are
standard on streets with heavier traffic.
People with limited mobility or sight
can move about HafenCity easily. Despite
Flood-safe HafenCity such as here in Marco Polo
Terraces/Dalmannkai: buildings and roads are built
on compacted foundations (warfts), forming a new
height of 8–9 m above sea level which protects
them even against extreme storm surges, while
promenades and squares may still flood in extreme
cases (below)
Cycle route concept
Cycle paths parallel to street
Cycle lane
Shared cycle and footpath
Other cycling options
plazas/promenades
Elbe Cycle Route
Mixed traffic on road
Bicycle rental point
Areas shown outside HafenCity
for information only
HafenCity is crisscrossed by a dense network of cycle paths and lanes. The integration of cycle routes with the city-center network gets better and better
differences in height, a mass of measures
make open spaces virtually barrier-free.
The most important walking and driving
routes are equipped with wheelchair-accessible ramps; acoustic signals can be
operated at traffic lights, and the surfaces
of promenades have been made with an
eye to walking and rolling quality, using
cut (and therefore smooth) cobblestones.
An essential requirement for sustainable development in HafenCity, with its
dense mix of uses and high number of
visitors, is also an efficient public transport system. The start of U4 subway services – the line was not foreseen in the
original Masterplan – to Überseequartier
station in December 2012, therefore, represented a major new link in the public
transport chain. Since then regular services have connected HafenCity directly
to Jungfernstieg and the central station.
In August 2013, services to the HafenCity
University station followed. Two months
earlier the ground-breaking ceremony for
the extension of the U4 through to the
Elbe bridges took place. The last 1.3 km
section runs from HafenCity University
station to the new station at Elbbrücken.
From 2018 it will link the eastern neigh-
borhoods with their approximately 3,000
homes and some 20,000 jobs.
SUBWAY, FERRIES
AND BUSES
In the course of construction of the U4
subway extension, work on a new aboveground subway station at Elbbrücken,
designed by the Hamburg office of Gerkan, Marg und Partner (gmp), began in
April 2015. At the same time Deutsche
Bahn AG is building a new Elbbrücken
rapid transit (S-Bahn) station. This will
serve eastern HafenCity as well as parts
of Rothenburgsort, a suburb to the northwest, and ensure better connections to
the Hamburg public transportation system. As well as the entrance building,
the Elbbrücken station construction project also inclues a glassed-in footbridge
between the stations.
There is also a dense network of bus
stops in HafenCity: the MetroBus 6 serves
the Auf dem Sande stop in the Speicherstadt; the new 111 line, skirting the port
and known as “Hamburg’s cheapest city
tour”, initially runs from Fischereihafen,
the fishing port, through HafenCity to
Baakenhafen. The first ferry pier has also
been installed near the Elbphilharmonie.
Two more are to follow: at HafenCity University and the Elbbrücken. In addition
there are various jetties for port barges,
for instance in Magdeburger Hafen and
in Baakenhafen harbor basins.
Planning and realization of these complex infrastructural measures – except on
private land- is the responsibility of the
developer, HafenCity Hamburg GmbH,
owned by the City of Hamburg. Financing
is covered exclusively by sales of land in
the planning zone. However, finance for
the new U4 subway line is an exception.
It is being planned and realized by Hamburger Hochbahn AG, and financed out
of budgetary funds of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg as well as federal
subsidies. The cost of the extension of
the subway, however, will be carried by
Hamburg’s special fund under public law
holding “city and port” assets, while the
cost of external access to HafenCity, the
planned reconstruction of Deichtorplatz,
as well as bridges to be built between
HafenCity and other city neighborhoods,
is also financed out of Hamburg’s budget.
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DATA AND
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HafenCity: Out of a Port a City Emerges
157 ha
Overall area:
of former port and industrial sites
Expansion of Hamburg’s city area
by
40%
10.5 km new waterside promenades
(including Elbe embankment)
3.1 km riverfront along the Elbe
Distance from center of HafenCity
to City Hall:
800 m
Density of uses for offices, residential,
retail, education, culture and recreation
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Building density:
floor space index (FSI)
Average density of residents:
(land area)
110/ha
Average density of employees:
(land area)
354/ha
Newbuild gross floor area (GFA)
above ground:
2.32 million sqm
More than
office
45,000 jobs of which 35,000
6,000 to 7,000 homes (of which
approx. 1,500 to 2,000 subsidized)
for approx. 14,000 residents
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Total investment volume
HafenCity
Distribution of land and
water surface uses
Distribution of land areas in HafenCity*
Distribution of building space
c. EUR 10.9bn (provisional estimate at current prices)
Overall area: 157 hectares
Total area: 127 hectares
Total: 2.32 million sqm GFA
Private
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Public
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and Port”; approx. EUR 1.5bn from sales
of plots (“Special Fund for City and Port”)
Not borne by the special fund are new
subway construction (except cost of the
extension to the Elbbrücken) and public
buildings such as university, schools
and Elbphilharmonie, or provision of
external access roads for HafenCity
(e.g. reconstruction of Deichtorplatz
and Domplatz axis) or the costs of the
International Maritime Museum
(EUR 30 million)
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Water surface
of which, 1 hectare
floating pontoons
Traffic areas 26.3 ha
24%
127 hectares
31%
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Completion of northern
Überseequartier as well
as Brooktorkai/Ericus
neighborhood
Completion of
construction Am
Sandtorkai
Opening of International
Maritime Museum Hamburg
and Traditional Ship Harbor
First occupants
move into
HafenCity
HafenCity, with Speicherstadt, becomes individual
city district
Offices
1,100,000
sqm GFA
Private open
spaces 13.8 ha
publicly accessible
9%
30%
City parliament decides
to realize HafenCity
Construction of
buildings begins
(SAP, now
Kühne Logistics
University KLU)
Introduction of HafenCity
Ecolabel for sustainable
building
Construction of
first neighborhood
(Sandtorkai/
Dalmannkai)
Construction of northern
Überseequartier begins
Construction of
Elbphilharmonie begins
Completion of first
neighborhood
(Sandtorkai/Dalmannkai)
Construction of U4
subway extension to
Elbbrücken begins
Further building of
southern Überseequartier delayed
Construction of
Am Lohsepark
neighborhood begins
Construction of
Elbtorquartier begins
Completion of
Baakenhafen bridge
Completion of
first building
on Strandkai
(Unilever and
Marco-Polo-Tower)
Revision of
Masterplan for
eastern HafenCity
Retail, gastronomy,
services
215,000 sqm GFA
Opening of Grasbrookpark and Elbe Arcades
in Magdeburger Hafen
Construction starts
in Baakenhafen
neighborhood
Final urban planning
competition for
HafenCity ends
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neighborhood)
2009
Completion of first
building (SAP, now
KLU)
Academia,
education, culture,
leisure and hotel
310,000 sqm GFA
Residential
700,000 sqm GFA
2015
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13%
48%
Private open
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Key stages of development
in HafenCity
Opening of Kesselhaus
information center
13%
Building area 33.9 ha
Land Area
Completion of
Sandtorpark/Grasbrook
neighborhood
Masterplan approved
by Hamburg Senate on basis of
international competition
25%
Public open
spaces 28.1 ha
public squares, parks,
promenades
U4 subway opens
Construction of central
Lohsepark and
Grasbrookpark begins
Opening of
Decision on the
architectural competition
for western Strandkai
Southern Überseequartier
has new investor
Inauguration of
Elbphilharmonie
Concert Hall
Opening: Baakenpark
Construction
starts of southern
Überseequartier
2017
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Lohsepark
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