Germany

The developer of a luxury urban quarter in Hamburg has agreed to remove a sign designed “as a tribute to the 20s” after critics compared it to concentration-camp signage. The typographic entry sign, designed by Berlin-based agency Polyform, will be dismantled as soon as possible, developer Quantum told Dezeen. “All involved people were depressed because of the bad associations,”

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Danish architect Dorte Mandrup has planned a building on top of a second-world-war naval bunker, in a UNESCO World Heritage area on the German coast. Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter’s competition-winning design places four storeys of office and storage space above a historic former military building in Wilhelmshaven, and wraps a glass wall around the exterior. The project was winner in a

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David Chipperfield Architects is set to build a 230-metre-high skyscraper on the River Elbe in Hamburg, expected to become the city’s tallest building. Named Elbtower, the competition-winning design is for a tapered skyscraper that will act as a counterpoint to Herzog and de Meuron’s nearby Elbphilharmonie concert hall. The tower is designed by David Chipperfield’s Berlin office for developer SIGNA Prime

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David Chipperfield Architects is set to build a 230-metre-high skyscraper on the River Elbe in Hamburg, expected to become the city’s tallest building. Named Elbtower, the competition-winning design is for a tapered skyscraper that will act as a counterpoint to Herzog and de Meuron’s nearby Elbphilharmonie concert hall. The tower is designed by David Chipperfield’s Berlin office for developer SIGNA Prime

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Protesters have clashed with a developer over plans to transform the Hamburg townhouse where the Gestapo interrogated victims during the second world war into a new urban quarter designed by David Chipperfield Architects. Developers Quantum enlisted Kuehn Malvezzi Architects, Stephen Williams Associates, and Agn Leussmann alongside Chipperfield’s practice to convert a group of four buildings centred around

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Protesters have clashed with a developer over plans to transform the Hamburg townhouse where the Gestapo interrogated victims during the second world war into a new urban quarter designed by David Chipperfield Architects. Developers Quantum enlisted Kuehn Malvezzi Architects, Stephen Williams Associates, and Agn Leussmann alongside Chipperfield’s practice to convert a group of four buildings centred around

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