PROJECT

Office Building Berliner Bogen,
Hamburg, Germany

SCOPE OF WORK

15,700 m² parabolic, point-fixed glass facade. 7 tip-up doors. Point-fixed north façade. Glazed pump house including steel framework and sun protection system. Floor glass suitable for pedestrians and cars.

INNOVATIONS
AND CHALLENGES

Fine-finish glass construction, point-fixed to telescopic steel girders over a half elliptical structure. Alpine-style assembly technique, without scaffolding. Hydraulically operat-ed, point-fixed, tip-up glass doors, integrated into the glass skin.

DATA

Overall Project Time:
2000-2002
Execution Period:
16 Months

AWARDS

2001, NEPIX Building Award.
2003, MIPIM: Office Building of the Year.

ARCHITECT BRT - Bothe Richter Teherani, Hamburg, Germany

Architecture team, founded in 1991. BRT stands for city-moulding and identity-forming architecture. Creative pieces full of structural bravura …. BRT moti-vation: “Curiosity inspires every step" (Goethe) BRT credo: “Architecture is sensuality given form" (Goethe would have liked that too)

Selected Awards

1999, 1st Place, BDA Prize, Architecture in Schleswig-Holstein, for Tobias Grau HQ.
2000, WestHyp–Stiftung Architecture Prize, ExemplaryTrade Buildings, Doppel-XX.
2001, FIABCI Prix d’Excellence for High-Rise Office Building Doppel-XX.
2002, NEPIX Building Award for Office Building Berliner Bogen.
2003, MIPIM Office Building of the Year.

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FRENER & REIFER
Metallbau GmbH /Srl
Via Alfred Ammon Straße 31
39042 Brixen / Bressanone
Italy

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