Office Building Double-XX,
Hamburg, Germany
SCOPE OF WORK
10,000 m² point-fixed outer façade. Main façade with glazed sliding elements. Ventilation louvers in the secondary façade.
INNOVATIONS
AND CHALLENGES
Development of a patented pointfixing system.
Europe’s highest suspended, point-fixed glass office façade. Sound insulation and air-conditioning concept.
DATA
Overall Project Time:
1998-2001
Execution Period:
16 Months
AWARDS
2000, Architecture prize West-Hyp-Stiftung fur exemplary commercial buildings.
2001, FIABCI Prix d’Ex-cellence, Office/Industrial Category.
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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