Hanseatic Trade Center
Overview
The Hanseatic Trade Center comprises a total floor area of 93,000 m (1,000,000 sq ft). It is located on the western tip of HafenCity, surrounded by water on three sides. To the north, Binnenhafen separates it from Hamburg's Altstadt (old town), to the south it is facing Sandtorhafen and HafenCity proper. Public transport is available at Baumwall station, just across Niederbaumbrücke.
During construction and the first years after, the five buildings were named by order of development phase. When Tishman Speyer Properties and Quantum Immobilien AG acquired four of the five buildings in 2005, the buildings were subsequently marketed by names of famous explorers and seafarers:
- Phase I: Vespucci-Haus (1993) by Kohn Pedersen Fox
- Phase II: Columbus-Haus (2002) by Nägele, Hofmann & Tiedemann
- Phase III: Humboldt-Haus (1992) by Dieter Heusch
- Phase IV: Amundsen-Haus (1999) by Gerkan, Marg & Partner
- Phase V: Kehrwiederspitze (1997) by Kleffel, Köhnholdt & Gundermann
Kehrwiederspitze was the only building not sold in 2005. The entire complex lies within the flood-exposed area of the Lower Elbe. Therefore, all five buildings are connected by a network of upper floor boardwalks among each other and to the inner-city.
See also
- List of tallest buildings in Hamburg
- List of tallest buildings in Germany
- List of world trade centers
References
- ^ Vespucci-Haus Archived 2016-01-12 at the Wayback Machine, vespucci-haus.de
- ^ "Columbus Haus". SkyscraperPage.
- ^ Humboldt-Haus, humboldt-haus-hamburg.de
- ^ Hanseatic Trade Center, Kehrwiederspitze, gmp-architekten.com
- ^ Kehrwiederspitze, kehrwiederspitze.com
External links
Media related to Hanseatic Trade Center at Wikimedia Commons
- "Emporis building ID 100007". Emporis. Archived from the original on April 22, 2016.
- Hanseatic Trade Center at Structurae