View from Dammtorstraße
Klaus Frahm, Hamburg
Detailed view of the facade, brick element
Klaus Frahm, Hamburg
Entrance lobby
Klaus Frahm, Hamburg
Atrium
Klaus Frahm, Hamburg
Interiors: office
Klaus Frahm, Hamburg
Detailed view of the facade, ventilation louver
Klaus Frahm, Hamburg
Historic cinema auditorium
Klaus Frahm, Hamburg
Site plan
construction project: construction of an office and commercial building as well as the reconstruction of the heritage-protected Metropolis Cinema
location: Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg-Neustadt
building contractor: Am Opernboulevard GmbH & Co. KG, Hochtief Projektentwicklung, Norddeutsche Grundvermögen, Hamburg
site management: Höhler + Partner, Architekten und Ingenieure, Aachen, Hamburg
management of building services equipment: Winter, beratende Ingenieure für Gebäudetechnik, Hamburg
structural physics: ITA Ingenieursgesellschaft für technische Akustik WEIMAR MBH, Weimar-Legefeld
preservation of historic buildings and monuments: Nüthen Restaurierungen GmbH + Co. KG, Hamburg
facade planning: Kucharzak Fassaden Engineering, Berlin
statics: Weber-Poll, Ingenieurbüro für Bauwesen GbR, Hamburg
building services equipment: Climaplan GmbH, Ingenieure für Versorgungstechnik, München; Heinze Stockfisch Grabis + Partner GmbH, Beratende Ingenieure für Gebäudetechnik, Hamburg
construction / material: precast concrete skeleton construction with curtain brick elements, ceiling strips made of fibre glass cement, aluminium post-and-beam construction
completed: 11/2011
The 7 to 9-storey commercial building harmoniously blends in with the delicate urban setting. It corresponds well with the historical opera building from the 1950s as well as with its adjacent buildings of dark brick as there are for example the building of the fiscal authority and the “Deutschlandhaus“. With its dark colour the facade stays in the background compared to the colour of the opera house and on the one hand has a transparent design to have a maximum amount of daylight enter into the building. On the other hand the curtain brick elements and ceiling strips made of fair-faced concrete provide the facade with a distinct materiality that can be interpreted as a memento of the location and its historical urban setting. The brick elements are a new development as the bricks are hung on a steel construction in a planar manner and with open joints to allow air flow. The heritage-protected Metropolis Cinema, after which the building was named, was reconstructed at the basements.