Engel & Völkers? New Headquarters | Richard Meier & Partners
Under the Richard Meier & Partners plan ? one of three competing proposals ? the site will become a remarkable place to work, live and relax in the HafenCity district.
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Engel & Völkers? new headquarters in Hamburg is a building with a unique approach presented by the classic problem of transparency, organization, and form within a courtyard building typology. While following the urban requirements of HafenCity district, the seven-story building block with a taller vertical building volume on the northwest corner?complementing the neighboring Marco Polo Tower?provides a new perspective on the usual disposition of the courtyard type that provides a distinctive and identifiable architectural design for the Engel & Völkers companies. Courtesy of Richard Meier & Partners
Bernhard Karpf, Design Partner-in-charge, comments: ?By treating the exterior appearance with restraint elegance and by articulating the interior courtyard and atrium through a series of more expressive elements the building turns itself inside out in correspondence with the clients? request of an inviting and identifiable headquarters building.?
The design of the headquarters began with a pairing of the courtyard building with the organizational system of a hybrid building that contains a multiplicity of different programmatic uses such as apartments, training academy, offices and retail spaces within a singular and identifiable building. The organizati...
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