Elbphilharmonie - exterior

The architects aimed to create a concert hall where anyone can easily enjoy the philharmonic, and not just the elite. The program mix inside helped with this aim where 3 concert halls, a hotel, apartments, cafes, bars, and restaurants all live inside this structure. The upper section of the building is new, sitting above the original brick walls with its expressive glass facades. The curved windows that are divided up into rectangular grids can be illuminated individually.

Inside, more of the curved language is repeated such as the main auditorium that seems to bubble yet feels like a cave. The duality and contrasting effects are spread throughout such dark and light, concave and convex, closing-in and widening-up, all seem to occur within same space throughout the interiors.