Hamburg Airport

Flughafenstraße 1, Hamburg, Germany
Photo © Christoph Gebler

The newer buildings of Terminal 1 and Shopping Plaza continue the design line of the already completed Terminal 2, which as a spacious daylight-flooded hall forms a generous spatial continuum underneath a roof with its curvature taking reference from the wing of an airplane. All terminals together are dimensioned for a passenger volume of approximately 13.5 million per year in total. A pier positioned in front interlinks the terminal like a spine.

Brief
Terminals1+2 and Shopping Plaza

Competition
1986 – 1st Prize

Design
Meinhard von Gerkan and Karsten Brauer

Client
Flughafen Hamburg GmbH

Construction period
1990–2008

Gross floor area
77,066 m², 53,000 m², 33,000 m²

Photo © Bernadette Grimmenstein
Photo © Klaus Frahm
Drawing © gmp
Drawing © gmp
Drawing © gmp
Photo © Heiner Leiska
Architects
gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects
Year
2008
Project Status
Built

Related Projects 

  • Centro Studi Canavée
    Soliman Zurkirchen Architekten
  • Secondary School Schulstraße
    Kronaus Mitterer Architekten
  • GROHE Water Experience Center
    D’art Design Gruppe GmbH
  • Limmatquai 4
    Kästli Storen
  • Primary School Erlaaer Schleife
    Kronaus Mitterer Architekten

Magazine 

Other Projects by gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner 

Hyparschale Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany
Stade de Luxembourg
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
New headquarter extension for Gebr. Heinemann
Hamburg, Germany
Lingang New City
Lingang New City, China
Isarphilharmonie/Hall E
München, Germany