Hamburg, 2006
Photo © Anke Muellerklein

In Hamburg's Marienthal district, a six-storey office building was built that was originally designed as the German headquarters of IMTECH and now serves as an official building for the city of Hamburg.

Photo © Anke Muellerklein

The building complex consists of two structures: a rounded corner building facing the road junction and a staggered row structure along Hammerstrasse. A recessed, glazed connecting structure between the two buildings creates an open courtyard on the street side. This courtyard functions as a central access area for the main buildings.

Photo © Anke Muellerklein

The façade design combines horizontal ribbon windows for optimum light penetration in the offices with curved building corners that give the structure a striking shape. Typical local facing bricks in saturated red and brown tones were used for the façades, which harmoniously wrap around the buildings. The connecting structure is simply clad in aluminum.

The row building steps back on the third floor and has dark aluminum cladding on the lower two floors, which picks up on the horizontal structure of the facing brick façade.

Photo © Anke Muellerklein