Near the banks of the river Alster, between numerous Gründerzeit villas, this apartment house t

Near the banks of the river Alster, between numerous Gründerzeit villas, this apartment house translates the formal elements of its historicist surrounding into a modern apartment house. With its high base, different balconies, oriels, projections and recesses, it picks up on the articulation of the neighboring façades.

Helmut Wolff / Dieter Schlür: Apartment House Harvestehuder Weg, Hamburg, Germany, 1972–1974

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Photo: Emma7stern 2010 (CC BY-SA 3.0)