The Elbphilharmonie: from vision to reality Entrances and views: Tube and Plaza A home for all kinds of music On the banks of the river Elbe, at the most westerly side of the HafenCity, Entering the Elbphilharmonie is a spectacular experience in itself. Hearing and seeing music is a special experience in the Grand Hall, the city of Hamburg is building the Elbphilharmonie – a monumental The building has its own dock for visitors arriving by boat. Access to the heart of the Elbphilharmonie. The stage for artists and orchestras synthesis of breathtaking architecture, excellent music and unique the building is via 29 lifts and, most notably, via the so-called »Tube«. is situated at the centre of the concert hall. The audience has excellent location. Rising up from the massive redbrick building of the old Kai- This 82-metre long curved escalator begins on the lower east side views and perfect acoustics from nearly every one of the 2,100 seats speicher A warehouse is a glittering glass structure, made up of more of the building and leads to the sixth floor of the west wing where in the stalls and terraced balconies. All balconies and walls are covered than 1,100 window panels. The design for this 110-metre high concert a panorama window offers visitors a spectacular view down the river by a »white skin« of 10,000 gypsum fibre panels. They have been hall is by the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron. Elbe towards the harbour and docks. From there, a further escalator individually designed according to computer calculations to guarantee The heart of the Elbphilharmonie is the Grand Hall with 2,100 seats, brings visitors to the Plaza. the best possible sound. Responsible for the sound design is one of which opens its doors in January 2017. General and Artistic Director The viewing platform spans an area of approximately 4,400 m² – the most famous acoustic engineers in the world, Yasuhisa Toyota, who Christoph Lieben-Seutter will use this large concert venue together with about as large as Hamburg‘s Town Hall Square. It is situated exactly has already piloted the sound design at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the two smaller halls for a varied programme that ranges from classical between the old Kaispeicher and the new glass structure rising above Musiikkitalo in Helsinki and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. music and jazz to world music and contemporary music. The NDR Sym- it and offers thrilling vistas of the harbour, Elbe and city. On the roof of The 12,500-tonne concert hall is completely detached from the phony Orchestra under the direction of Thomas Hengelbrock is to be the old Kaispeicher, concertgoers, Hamburg citizens and tourists come rest of the building for reasons of sound isolation. The hall is carried the orchestra in residence of the Elbphilharmonie. In addition to other together. The Plaza is divided into an outdoor circular promenade and by two separate shell-like structures, creating a space able to contain local orchestras and ensembles from the city of Hamburg, private an inner area with glass walls. From this inner area you can access the the sound waves. The four-manual organ console has 65 stops (and concert promoters will present further concert highlights. concert foyers as well as the hotel lobby and café. additional stops within the sound reflector in the concert hall ceiling) On the eastern side, a 250-room hotel is integrated into the Elbphil- The illuminated foyers and stairways shimmer through the glass and completes the Grand Hall. The organ is built by Johannes Klais harmonie, while on the western side there are 45 private apartments. façade, beckoning visitors to the Grand Hall of the Elbphilharmonie. Orgelbau in Bonn, a company with a long and illustrious history in From the outer promenade of the Plaza, at a height of 37 metres, visitors organ building. can experience the maritime open-air atmosphere. The Grand Hall offers mostly classical music concerts with large www.elbphilharmonie.com The Elbphilharmonie is not just the architectural centre of the orchestras, but also unplugged appearances of jazz and pop artists. HafenCity, but also a shining symbol of Hamburg itself. It highlights The Recital Hall with 550 seats is used predominantly for chamber the status of Hamburg as a musical metropolis. music and smaller concert formats. Experience the Elbphilharmonie today! Details & facts about the Elbphilharmonie Elbphilharmonie Pavilion Opening January 2017 on the Magellan Terraces Start of construction April 2007 Großer Grasbrook / 20457 Hamburg Total floor area of the entire building approx. 120,000 m2 This area is equivalent to approx. 17 football fields or ⅔ of the Inner Alster lake. Apr – Oct: Tue to Sun, 10:00 –17:00 Total weight of the building approx. 200,000 tonnes Grand opening2017 Nov – Mar: Thu to Sun, 10:00 –17:00 This is the equivalent of 416,666 grand pianos, 722 Airbus A 380 planes or in January Closed: 24 –26 Dec, 31 Dec – 1 Jan 2 ½ »Queen Mary 2« cruise ships. Total retail area of the Plaza 4,400 m2 An exhibition is located at the pavilion showing the various stages of Amount of steel used 18,000 tonnes construction of the concert hall and the history of the musical metropolis Amount of cement used 63,000 m3 Hamburg. It also includes the impressive 1:10 acoustic model of the Total surface area of glass facade 21,000 m2 Grand Hall. Every weekend, Elbphilharmonie lectures and project Glass panels 2,200 in 1,100 window panels The Elbphilharmonie resonates – today presentations including HafenCity tours take place here: Length of the »Tube« 82 m Even before its official opening, the Elbphilharmonie is attracting large Highest point in the west 110 m audiences. Music lovers and architecture aficionados, tourists, support- Lectures and project presentations Highest point in the east 88 m ers and donors as well as the public at large participate in the building Elbphilharmonie lecture at the Pavilion: No. of seats Grand Hall 2,100 process of this signature project. Visitors of the »Elbphilharmonie Sat & Sun, 17:00 / Duration: 75 minutes No. of seats Recital Hall 550 Konzerte« can in addition already get an impression of the quality Project presentation incl. a tour of the HafenCity: No. of seats Kaistudio 150 and the variety of the programming. Diverse and bold programming Sat & Sun, 12:00 & 13:00 / Duration: 90 minutes Architects Herzog & de Meuron of the highest possible quality marks the concert series that Artistic Construction Hochtief Solutions AG and General Director Christoph Lieben-Seutter has created. As head Offers for groups Construction management ReGe Hamburg of both the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle since 2007, he has been You can book lectures or project presentations including Operating company HamburgMusik gGmbH – Elbphilharmonie und establishing and developing the future profile of the Hamburg musical a HafenCity tour under Laeiszhalle Betriebsgesellschaft metropolis. The »Elbphilharmonie Konzerte« include such diverse + 49 40 357 666 280 formats as experimental productions at Kampnagel, large orchestral Mon to Thu, 14:00 –18:00 concerts or chamber music at the Laeiszhalle, several week-long [email protected] Photo credit Elbphilharmonie Hamburg (Oliver Heissner, Thies Rätzke), Elbphil- music festivals and thematically focussed concert series, as well as harmonie Plaza (Gilda Fernández), Ticket office Brahms Kontor (Claudia Höhne), jazz and world music. A special emphasis of the »Elbphilharmonie Tickets Elbphilharmonie Kulturcafé (Mehmet Alatur), Renderings Grand Hall (Herzog & Konzerte« is placed on the educational programmes, combined under www.elbphilharmonie.com de Meuron), »Elbphilharmonie Konzerte« Motif (Maxim Schulz), Elbphilharmonie the title »Elbphilharmonie Kompass«. + 49 40 357 666 66 Pavilion (Oliver Heissner), Infographics Elbphilharmonie © Herzog & de Meuron The »Elbphilharmonie Konzerte« and the extensive educational Mon to Fri, 11:00 –18:00 / Sat 11:00 –16:00 Basel / Elbphilharmonie und Laeiszhalle Service GmbH / Graphics: bloomimages programme would not be possible without the generous support of Ticket office Brahms Kontor donors, sponsors and patrons. These supporters also gave the decisive (vis-à-vis of the Laeiszhalle) Update October 2015 impetus for the construction of the Elbphilharmonie. The »Elbphilhar- Johannes-Brahms-Platz 1 / 20355 Hamburg News and events in our newsletter: monie Foundation Hamburg« and the »Freundeskreis Elbphilharmonie + Elbphilharmonie Kulturcafé www.elbphilharmonie.de/newsletter.en Laeiszhalle e.V.« coordinate this commitment into diverse projects and Am Mönckebergbrunnen objectives. Barkhof 3 / 20095 Hamburg Subscribe now! ElbphilEröff2017_JB_Minibrosch_ENGL_145_200_0121.indd 1 21.01.16 12:41 1 Kaispeicher The old Kaispeicher A with its red brick façade is the foundation that the Elbphilharmonie is built upon. At the start of the construction process, the old warehouse for cocoa, tea and tobacco was gutted completely. 1 Der Kaispeicher Der alte Kaispeicher A mit seiner roten Backsteinfassade bildet das Fundament der Elbphilharmonie. 2 The Façade The glass façade consists of 1,100 Zu Beginn der Bauarbeiten wurde das ehemalige Lagerhaus individual window panels, intricately curved and with für Kakao, Tee und Tabak komplett entkernt. a pattern of individually printed grey chrome points. The entire surface of the façade is equal in area to two 2 Die Fassade Die Glasfassade besteht aus 1.100 Fenster- football fields. elementen, zum Teil aufwendig gebogen und mit einem Raster 3 ausThe Tubegrauen At Chrompunktenthe end of the gently individuell arched 82 bedruckt. metre Die gesamte escalatorFassade a panorama entspricht window der Fläche awaits von the zweivisitor, Fußballfeldern. offering 2 12 a view of the harbour. Another 20 metre escalator goes up to3 the Die Plaza. Tube Am Ende einer nach oben gewölbten, 82 Meter langen Rolltreppe erwartet die Besucher ein Panoramafenster 4 Themit Hafenblick.Plaza The central Eine weitere platform, 20 atMeter a height lange of Rolltreppe führt 37 metres,sie auf dieis an Plaza.