The Dockland building in Hamburg
Saturday, 1 June 2013 - 01:01 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union Category/Kategorie: General , Hamburg , House of the Month
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Like a ship sits the six-story office building on a plot of land, 40 meters out over the
river Elbe in
Hamburg . It can only be reached by a large staircase on the land side, the board is open to the public, and has on top a nearly 500 square meter wide roof terrace with a good view over the
harbor and the northern shoreline. It is also a popular photo opportunity due to its distinctive architecture. The roof terrace is not wheelchair and handicapped accessible because it has no publicly accessible lift.
The ground floor is used as a parking area, so that it may be flooded by the Elbe. The five-storey of office space follows a mezzanine floor with a viewing platform. The Dockland was designed by “BRT Architekten Bothe Richter Teherani”. It was built by Robert Vogel GmbH & Co. KG. The approximately 25-meter-high glass building with a steel structure and 6,500 square meters of floor space has cost 30 million euros.
Dockland at night © flickr.com - Sebastian/cc-by-2.0
The name,
Dockland , was chosen based on the restored docks in
London . Together with the
Elbkaihaus and
Elbbergcampus ,
Dockland forms a small office city on the Elbe.
Dockland was completed in 2005 as a parallelogram-shaped building near the former England ferry terminal. 2003, a plot between the former fishing port, Fischereihafen, and the river Elbe was built/filled for the office building into the river. The inauguration ceremony was held on 31 January 2006.
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