D-Hamburg Architecture yearbook reports on Holzhafen
Berlin's architecture critic Falk Jaeger reported about the develop- ment of Hamburg's Holzhafen in the recently published Hamburg architecture yearbook.
The Holzhafen is the oldest inner harbor in Hamburg and lies between the ferry terminal and the famous Hamburg fish market.
New residential and office buildings built along the Grosse Elbstrasse offer grand views of the Elbe River and the city’s port. The prize-winning design, selected in an international competition and jointly submitted by ASTOC, Kees Christiaanse, and Christian Herbert, was later modified to reduce office space and offer more apartment space. At the Holzhafen itself, a continuous street with public squares by the banks of the Elbe River was laid out.
ASTOC, Kees Christiaanse, and Christian Herbert envisaged three new buildings in their design: two office buildings with clinker facades that flank a twenty-story glazed residential tower, making up a continuous waterfront.
Traditionally, there has always been a narrow strip of warehouses between Hamburg’s inner city and the Elbe River, as found in the famous Speicherstadt, for example. The warehouses are usually clad in red clinker, a motif that has been incorporated into the design of the new building.
Jahrbuch Hamburg 2012 
