After my walk through the historic area of the Speicherstadt, I would now like to introduce
you to the modern area named HafenCity. Welcome to the largest rebuilding project in Europe.
In the new quarter of Hamburg, named HafenCity, old port warehouses get replaced by new modern
buildings for offices, shops, restaurants and residential areas with a quite interesting
and modern architecture. Sometimes, building a new home can be very expensive. This building
construction is the new home for classical music in Hamburg named the Elb Philharmonie.
When they started to build this in 2007, the costs were estimated at about 77 million euros.
Nowadays, in 2012, the costs are at about 477 million euros.
Nevertheless, with three concert halls, a few restaurants, a four-star hotel and a few flats,
the Elb Philharmonie will be Hamburg's new object of prestige after its completion in 2013.
This black cube is the Elb Philharmonie Pavillon. Here you can get some information about the
whole building process and about the whole building itself. You can hear some music, watch some
films about the process and if you are here and you have a little bit of money, you can also get
to the top, maybe you can see that. There is a model of the concert hall and of the Elb Philharmonie.
The architecture here in the Hafen city is very unique and interesting and if you want to get to
know more about that, you have to go to one of these information centers. We have two here in
the Hafen city. This is the Infocenter Ubersäckvartier, where you get to know more about architecture.
You see plans and models of the upcoming buildings. The best thing about it, it is completely free.
You have to pay no entrance fee and you can hang around and watch all the plans and maps. You can
watch movies about the whole project.
Ready for the next part of Hamburg? We head over to the city center in the next
Hamburg video blog episode. Until then, I will make a short visit to Madrid and will also provide
a video blog from there. So stay tuned and follow me on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
Bye.
