Dancing towers
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Dancing Towers Tango Towers |
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| Dancing Towers in July 2013 | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Hamburg-Mitte district |
| Construction time : | 2009–2012 |
| Opening: | August 2012 |
| Architect : | Hadi Teherani |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | Office space, gastronomy, radio station, music club |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 85 and 75 m |
| Construction: | steel construction |
| Building-costs: | 180 million euros |
| Height comparison | |
| Hamburg : | 12. ( list ) |
| address | |
| Address: | Reeperbahn 1 |
| City: | Hamburg |
Two skyscrapers at the eastern entrance to the Reeperbahn in Hamburg are known as dancing towers or tango towers . They were completed in 2012 according to plans by the architects BRT - Bothe, Richter, Teherani and financed by the Strabag Group. The use includes office space, restaurants, a radio station and a music club under the building. The project on the site of the former bowling alley is criticized by residents because of the contrast it creates with the surrounding district.
location
The Dancing Towers are located in Hamburg at Reeperbahn No. 1 on a triangle between the streets Reeperbahn, Zirkusweg and Beim Trichter. So, coming from the city center, you are right behind the old weir system in Hamburg at the entrance to the St. Pauli district , in the immediate vicinity of the St. Pauli underground station and Spielbudenplatz .
architecture
The award-winning competition design for the project comes from the Hamburg architects BRT - Bothe, Richter, Teherani. Hadi Tehrani's design , as a co-founder of BRT, comprised two towers, 85 and 75 meters high, with up to 24 floors. The most striking feature of the towers is the bent facade construction made of glass and steel. The clients were Projekt Elbpark GmbH & Co KG and Strabag Real Estate GmbH.
The total gross floor area of the towers is around 33,357 m². According to the architect's description, the towers represent a dancing couple - “Man and woman moving to tango. Perhaps also the knock-knees of a prostitute looking for suitors in the neighborhood. "
financing
Züblin Development GmbH, which belongs to the Strabag Group , bought the project from the Pirelli RE and Morgan Stanley Real Estate joint venture . The investment volume for the project in 2011 amounted to 180 million euros.
use
After a construction period of three years, from September 2009 to mid-2012, the first tenants were able to move into their rooms in August of the same year. Most of the office space has been created in the new building complex. The main tenants are the Hamburg companies of the Strabag Group. With around 500 employees they move into around 15,000 m² of the building.
Hamburg's highest restaurant called "Clouds" with a bar and roof terrace was opened in October 2013 on the 23rd and 24th floors, around 105 meters above the Elbe. The catering project has an area of around 540 m² plus 235 m² roof terrace and can accommodate up to 350 guests. The operators are restaurateurs Marc Ciunis and Christoph Strenger as well as the entrepreneur Andreas Fraatz, who already run other businesses in Hamburg St. Pauli.
The music station Radio Reeperbahn broadcasts on the ground floor of the dancing towers. The official start of broadcasting was on November 10, 2012. The Mojo Club music club offers space for 800 visitors on 1600 m² in one part of the ground floor and on two levels in the basement. A trendsetter club in St. Pauli thus reopened ten years after it had to officially close.
The building of the 4-star hotel, which is located on the same property, is a separate structure with eight floors and a gross floor area of 10,326 m², divided by the dancing towers . The design hotel "Arcotel Onyx" belongs to the Austrian company Hotel chain Arcotel and offers 215 rooms and suites as well as a wellness and fitness area.
history
The area between the street Beim Trichter and the Spielbudenplatz has an eventful history. In 1805 a building was erected there, in which the once popular dance hall "Zum Trichter" had been located since 1889. Destroyed in the war in 1942, the Astra bowling alley with the "Mandarin" Chinese restaurant was built here in 1958. From 1962 to the end of 1988 there was also the music store "Music City" next to the Mandarin. Due to the planned demolition (asbestos), the building was then empty for a long time. From 1991 to 2009 the rooms of the Chinese restaurant were used as a "Mandarin Casino" and later as a "Mojo Club" for music events. In 2004 the artists' association SKAM eV moved into the more than 2000 m² of the vacant bowling alley. The plans for the redesign of the property on the Reeperbahn had been in progress since the 1990s. Various project ideas from German and foreign investors that included an entertainment center and an office building were rejected. The design for the dancing towers comes from an architectural competition that the architect Hadi Teherani won in 2003. The idea behind the design is an association of music and sex that should fit the Reeperbahn.
criticism
Residents of the St. Pauli district criticized the construction project because such pure office complexes and luxury hotels in the city center were now expanding more and more into the neighborhood and thus changing the district. The GAL in the district also said that it was not good for the district that only offices and no living space were created in the towers. In addition, the artist association SKAM eV had to give up the long-term use of the former bowling center in the course of the sale.
Web links
- Picture gallery "Tanzende Türme" (NDR), April 4, 2013 ( Memento from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Pictures of the dancing towers
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dancing Towers - an interim balance ( memento of the original from May 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Strabag Real Estate GmbH, accessed on February 10, 2013.
- ↑ Star architect Teherani pays salaries later. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. November 30, 2010.
- ↑ a b Ed. Züblin AG: Project description ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Projects: dancing towers Reeperbahn 1. on: brt.de
- ↑ a b Now Tehrani's “Dancing Towers” are coming to the Reeperbahn. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. June 10, 2008.
- ↑ a b Ed. Züblin AG: Press release 2008 ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Dancing Towers: Leaning with the best prospects. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. June 8, 2011.
- ^ Dancing Towers - On Reeperbahn No. 1. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. May 25, 2012.
- ^ "Clouds": Hamburg's highest restaurant , Hamburger Morgenpost, October 25, 2013
- ↑ Stephan Fischer: RADIO Reeperbahn inaugurates glass studio in Hamburg's Kiez - press release. (No longer available online.) Radio week, November 7, 2012, archived from the original on January 22, 2013 ; Retrieved February 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christoph Twickel: The Mojo Club on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg is reopening. Spiegel Online, February 2, 2013, accessed February 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Hamburg Tanzende Türme, Hamburg ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Strabag Real Estate GmbH, accessed on February 10, 2013.
- ↑ Martin Kopp: New: Onyx Hotel - from the porthole to the Reeperbahn. Die Welt, May 12, 2012, accessed February 9, 2013 .
- ^ High-rise couple for Hamburg - Club in the lowlands. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 30, 2009.
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '58 .6 " N , 9 ° 58' 5.4" E