Western HafenCity, Hamburg

Mediterranean maritime worlds

Concept

Restructuring measures will transform the former industrial areas with their free trade zones and warehouses into a new mixed use urban space – the biggest inner-city urban development project in Europe.

In the west of the HafenCity, a welcoming landscape has developed that inspires people to visit and linger. An abundance of greenery and water gives the location its specific identity.

The Mediterranean design has remodelled the former industrial zones, creating a new urban space, in which promenades, streets, plazas, and parks have a direct relationship to the water – a multifaceted landscape with human dimensions, which changes with the tides in some parts, creating closer relations between the people and the water ambience.

Client

HafenCity Hamburg GmbH

Project period

since 2004

Size

z. Zt. 81.700 m²

Type

Public spaces & squares

Location

Germany

Competition

„Westliche HafenCity“ 1. Prize for EMBT, 2002

Realisation

WES Landschaft-Architektur, WES & Partner

Partners

zum Teil mit Enric Miralles - Benedetta Tagliabue / EMBT, Barcelona, Spanien

Photos

Elbe&Flut for HafenCity Hamburg GmbH (2,3)
HafenCity GmbH (11)
Jörn Hustedt (1,4-7,9)
Tim C. Kraus for HafenCity Hamburg GmbH (8)

Project pictures

WES-Westliche-HafenCity-Hamburg-07-Marco-Polo-Terrassen-Foto-Joern-Hustedt

Awards

Publications

 

 

Nomination

Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2013 (USA)

Hamburg, Germany

HafenCity
Hamburg

with EMBT

Book

Speicherstadt und Hafencity. Ein fotografischer Streifzug

Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2013

Authors: Michael Pasdzior, Dorothée Engel +
Jörn Walter

HafenCity, Hamburg

Photographic project presentation

Book

HafenCity Hamburg-.
Das 1. Jahrzehnt: Stadt-
entwicklung, (...)

Junius Verlag GmbH, 2012

Authors: Jürgen Bruns-Berentelg, Dirk Meyhöfer + Jörn Walter

HafenCity, Hamburg

Project presentation

Book

Der Dalmannkai. HafenCity-Quartier mit maritimem Flair

Junius Verlag GmbH, 2012

Author: Thomas Hampel

HafenCity, Hamburg

Project presentation