The Elbphilharmonie is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany, designed by the Swiss firm Herzog and de Meuron and built on top of Kaispeicher A, a brick warehouse from 1963, on a peninsula in the Elbe River. Its glass superstructure, shaped to suggest a hoisted sail or a wave, rises to 108 meters, making it the tallest inhabited building in Hamburg, and its Great Hall seats an audience around the stage beneath a ceiling of roughly 10,000 individually shaped acoustic panels designed by the acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota. Initially budgeted at about 241 million euros in 2007, the project's final cost reached about 866 million euros amid years of delay, but since opening in January 2017 it has become a symbol of Hamburg's harborfront redevelopment.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountHafenCity, Hamburg, Germany 1 Completed Year Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account Classification
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1. Elbphilharmonie (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationlead section, first sentence
is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River.
construction section
Construction work officially ended on 31 October 2016
lead section, building description
It is the key project of the new Hafencity development and the tallest inhabited building in Hamburg, with a final height of 108 metres (354 ft).
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The Elbphilharmonie is a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany, designed by the Swiss firm Herzog and de Meuron and built on top of Kaispeicher A, a brick warehouse from 1963, on a peninsula in the Elbe River. Its glass superstructure, shaped to suggest a hoisted sail or a wave, rises to 108 meters, making it the tallest inhabited building in Hamburg, and its Great Hall seats an audience around the stage beneath a ceiling of roughly 10,000 individually shaped acoustic panels designed by the acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota. Initially budgeted at about 241 million euros in 2007, the project's final cost reached about 866 million euros amid years of delay, but since opening in January 2017 it has become a symbol of Hamburg's harborfront redevelopment.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Elbphilharmonie
- Wikidata Q673223, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q673223, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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