On 11 January 2022, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg celebrates five years since its grand opening. The concert hall has demonstrated night after night that the live music experience in a spectacular ...

Spectacular cultural monuments enliven cities and often bring economic benefits that far outweigh the initial cost. Such may be the case for the controversial Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. From the ...

The eyes of the classical music world, some architecture eyes, most Hamburger eyes (evokes an image, doesn’t it?) and any number of vaguely interested eyes not currently engaging with Donald Trump’s ...

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 Plaza ...

The spectacular possibilities of Hamburg’s new concert venue were celebrated in an imaginative opening concert Hamburg’s new concert hall is Germany’s latest austerity-defying architectural ...

Music is the most ephemeral of the arts: hardly has a note sounded out, and it's gone. But sounds from the opening of the Elbphilharmonie are still going through the head of DW music editor Rick ...

Delays, acrimony and an €860m price tag can’t detract from the beauty of Herzog & de Meuron’s new concert hall. But will it win over the citizens who footed the bill? In 1917, in the depths of the ...

Firstly, the existing warehouse had to be stripped back to its historical brick facade and reinforced by adding 650 new concrete piles to the existing 1,000+ piles in place so that it could bear the ...

Architect Jacques Herzog has designed dozens of buildings together with his partner Pierre de Meuron. But his most controversial project to date, the Elbphilharmonie, is about to open in Hamburg.