project: hamburg

Bank HQ

Hamburg

Germany

Architect: Jan Stoermer & Partners

(Azhar as Consultant to JSP)

A competition winning bank headquarter building for a national bank, in the prestigious centre of Hamburg, Neuer Wall.

The project responds to the street conditions, solar orientation, creating a building with a strong identity as well as being a sensitive intervention in the fabric of the city.

This project in collaboration with Jan Stoermer, another winner from an invited competition, the brief was to create a focus for a bank headquarters building in the centre of Hamburg. The site has two faces, one to the prestigious Neuer Wall street, and the rear to a canal.

The proposal exploits the viewing of the building from oblique views, both from the street and the canal, the façade is faceted to create a differentiation, depending on which direction one travels down the street, it has a smooth or an articulated fenestration.
The black boxes at roof level create a focal point, and are the banks meeting rooms, they also mark the position of a “passage” at street level which creates an internal street frontage for retail, and aligns itself to a future pedestrian bridge across the canal.

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