FALKENRIED AND ALSTER Between the stately villa districts at the inner city lake Alster and the 19th century neighbourhood Eppendorf, a lot of interesting architecture projects have been realised recently. In the first place the Falkenried site should be mentioned here. The former tram depot has been transformed to a new city quarter with (luxury) apartments, offices, shops and cafés. Bolles + Wilson were responsible for the masterplan, the plan was executed in collaboration with other architect firms. Not far from Falkenried Blauraum architects converted an old commercial building into apartments.

On a former football field and next to the media centre designed by Norman Foster and Peter Kulka, the Swiss architects Atelier 5 have realised a complex and dense residential structure with many different housing types. With the Spanish office Miralles Tagliabue - EMBT another international architect has designed in this neighbourhood (the youth music school). Also the nearby university campus has been modernised in the last years and among the white stucco villas, huge parks and new apartment buildings at the lake front of the Alster, an office villa designed by the architect Richard Meier can be found.


Topics: district development, conversion, urban renewal, densification, brick architecture, German Urban Development Award.

Alster and Falkenried // architecture guided tour information/ contact

Architecture designed by APB, Atelier 5, Blauraum, Bolles + Wilson, BRT Bothe Richter Teherani, Norman Foster, Labfac, medium, Richard Meier, EMBT Miralles Tagliabue, Peter Kulka, Renner Hainke Wirth, Spengler Wiescholek and others