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Helmut Wolff / Dieter Schlür: Apartment House Harvestehuder Weg 55, 1972D–1974

  • Hamburg, Germany, Show on map
  • #RES #Western Europe
  • This brutalist apartment house from the 1970s is clearly different from its surrounding buildings and yet fits in. Near the banks of the Alster, it stands lined up on a slope between numerous Gründerzeit villas. The architects Wolff and Schlür took care to translate formal elements of the historicist surrounding architecture into their modern apartment house, which was built in formwork-rough in-situ concrete. A high building base, differentiation through balconies, oriels and projecting and recessed glazed sections pick up on the articulation of the neighboring façades. Structural details such as cornices, balustrades, railings and gargoyles provide the residential building with its own character, as do the yellow-orange window frames which are contrasting with the gray of its concrete façade.

  • Heritage protected since 2013.