Hamburg Tour

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This three-day trip incorporates visits to the best architecture in Germany’s second city including recent projects by Christ Gantenbein, Caruso St John and 6a.  Featuring visits to major areas of urban regeneration and a meeting with Tobias Goevert, Regional & Urban Development at Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, the tour will be particularly valuable for British architects interested in learning about work opportunities in Hamburg. Where possible building visits will be led by representatives of the architectural offices involved.

The price of travel and accommodation is not included in the ticket price. We recommend attendees book accommodation at the Cloud One Hotel Hamburg - Kontorhaus. Each day’s tour will begin in the Cloud One Hotel lobby.

Image: Grosser Burstah, Caruso St John

ITINERARY

TUESDAY 3RD JUNE

5:00pm Group meets in the lobby of the Cloud One Hotel Hamburg - Kontorhaus.

5:30pm Visit the Tichelhaus, a recently completed office development in Hamburg’s Alsdadt district, designed by Christ and Gantenbein.  The tour will be led by practice director Emanuel Christ.

6:30pm Lecture Christ & Gantenbein, AIT Salon

7:30pm A guided tour through Hamburg’s inner city.  The itinerary will feature historic landmarks such as Fritz Höger’s brick expressionist Chilehaus (1924) and Sprinkenhof (1943) as well as recent additions including Caruso St John and Biwermau’s office buildings on Großer Burstah (2023) 

 8:30pm Dinner at Pane e Tulipani 

WEDNESDAY 4TH JUNE

9:00am Group meets in the lobby of the Cloud One Hotel Hamburg - Kontorhaus. Guided tour through the city’s dockland development.  The tour will include a visit to Herzog de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie (2017) and to Biwermau’s ongoing redevelopment of the 1888 central machine station which originally provided electricity to Speicherstadt, Hamburg’s nineteenth century warehouse district.  The tour will proceed to HafenCity, Europe’s largest inner-city urban development.

10:00am Meeting with representatives of HafenCity GmbH

12.00am The tour will continue through HafenCity, taking in new housing by  6a Architects and the community house on Grasbrookpark by ARGE Hoffmann, Schlüter, Zeh.

1.30pm Lunch and meeting with Schulbau Hamburg 

3:30pm Visit to the Marschland School by Thomas Kröger

5:30pm Visit School „Christianeum“ by Arne Jacobsen 

7:00pm Speed dating event with Hamburg architectural practices

THURSDAY 5TH JUNE

9:30am Meeting with Tobias Goevert, Head of Regional & Urban Development at Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg

11:30pm Visit of Bunker Heiligengeistfeld

12:00pm Lunch

13:00pm Bus tour of the pioneering 1920’s social housing at Jarrestadt by Karl Schneider, Heinrich Bomhoff, Friedrich Ostermeyer and Paul Frank

14:00pm Bus tour of Pergolenviertel, a new residential quarter being developed to plans by E2A

15:00pm Arne Jacobsen Haus (tbc)

15:45pm Bus takes group to airport arriving by 16:30pm

 Image: Chilehaus, Fritz Höger

CANCELLATIONS

If you need to cancel your place please email ellis@architecturefoundation.org.uk Where cancellations are made up to 21 days before the commencement of the tour, the ticket price will be refunded in full.  Cancellations made less than 21 days before the commencement of the tour will receive no refund. If the trip has to be rescheduled for reasons beyond the Architecture Foundation's control, you will be offered a place on the rescheduled date.  The Architecture Foundation will refund you should you be unable to attend on the rescheduled date.

DISCLAIMER

For any international or domestic event, you are required to have adequate personal travel insurance cover.  Participation in any Architecture Foundation event will be at the participant's own risk.  By participating you acknowledge that neither the Architecture Foundation nor the leader or organiser of the event has any responsibility or liability for loss or damage to your belongings. You also acknowledge that neither the Architecture Foundation nor the leader or organiser of the event will be liable for death or personal injury unless it is caused as a direct result of our negligence.