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Landmark
The Elbphilharmonie at Ten: What Herzog & de Meuron Got Right (and Wrong)
A decade after opening, the concert hall's architectural legacy is more complicated than either its champions or critics admit.
Hamburg, Built & Bridged
Critical writing on the architecture, infrastructure and urban design of Germany's second city.
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Urban Design
HafenCity's Missing Middle: Why Hamburg's Newest District Feels Half-Finished
Europe's largest inner-city development has the buildings but not yet the neighbourhood. What went wrong with the spaces between?
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Infrastructure
Counting Hamburg's Bridges: The City That Quietly Outnumbers Venice
With over 2,500 bridges, Hamburg has more crossings than Venice, Amsterdam and London combined. We went looking for the ones that matter.
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Heritage
Kontorhaus District: The Office Buildings That Invented an Architectural Style
The Chilehaus and its neighbours didn't just define 1920s Brick Expressionism -- they changed how Europe thought about commercial buildings.
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Regeneration
How Wilhelmsburg Went from Flood Zone to Design Lab
After the IBA Hamburg expo, the Elbe island became a testing ground for affordable housing, energy innovation and post-industrial landscape design.
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Preservation
The Last Wooden Jetties of Finkenwerder
Across the Elbe from Blankenese, a handful of timber landing stages survive -- relics of a fishing village swallowed by the port.