Since 2003, a completely new district has been emerging in Hamburg between Kehrwiederspitze and Elbbrücken - the Hafencity. Ten city quarters with office towers, modern residential buildings, playgrounds and shops are growing directly on the Elbe, in the former port area. The most famous and at the same time most controversial building in the new district is the Elbphilharmonie. An overview of the huge urban development project.
At the HafenCity University subway station, light and music compositions are performed on the hour on weekends and public holidays between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. The illuminated containers change color to match classical music, which for operational reasons is only played on the mezzanine floor. Outside of these times, constant, slow color transitions take place. The light containers are exactly the size of containers. At the moment, these shine in the colors blue/yellow for the Ukraine.
HafenCity (also Hafencity) is a district in the Hamburg-Mitte district of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. It consists of the area of the Großer Grasbrook, the northern part of the former Elbe island Grasbrook, and the Speicherstadt on the former Elbe islands Kehrwieder and Wandrahm and was officially founded in 2008. It borders in the north, separated by the Zollkanal, on Hamburg city center, in the west and south on the Elbe and in the east, bounded by the Oberhafen, on Hammerbrook and Rothenburgsort. The district is completely surrounded by rivers and canals and has a total area of around 2.2 square kilometers. In a narrower sense, HafenCity is the project name for the 157 hectare area on the Großer Grasbrook, which was formerly part of the free port. By the beginning of the 2030s, residential units for up to 14,000 people, up to 3,000 hotel rooms and jobs for up to 45,000 people, primarily in the office and service sector, are to be created on the site. In addition, it is calculated with up to 10,000 schoolchildren and students as well as around 50,000 customers and tourists per day, so that after completion, over 120,000 people should liven up the district every day. It is currently one of the largest inner-city urban development projects in Europe.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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