Set on the banks of the Elbe River on a historic port in Hamburg’s HafenCity, the massive Elbphilharmonie comprises three concert halls, a hotel, 45 private apartments, and a publicly accessible ...

The most interesting thing about Herzog and De Meuron’s newly opened concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, isn’t its wave-like facade, which rises above the city of Hamburg, Germany. It’s not ...

Sealing and Bonding The over 70 m high glass assembly fronting of the Elbphilharmonie sports 1,100 blue crystal-like window units, the whole glass facade covers an area of around 20,500 m².

It was an exciting, slightly rainy New York Monday night in March of 2007, at Carnegie Hall. The North German Radio Symphony Orchestra was in town and I had come up from D.C. to hear their concert ...

Hamburg wanted the Elbphilharmonie to be an instantly discernible architectural symbol to lift the city’s prestige but got a faceless glass block sitting on top of a brick one. Yet in its theatrically ...

From a distance, the Elbphilharmonie looks like massive, gleaming ship presiding over Hamburg’s busy harbor. Closer up, the roof swoops and bows like crashing waves, punctured by textured ...