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Architects Richard Meier & Partners Location Hamburg, Germany Category Institutional Buildings Managing Partner Richard Meier Design Partner Bernhard Karpf Design Team Anne Strüwing, Parsa Khalili Collaborators Bori Kang, Amalia Rusconi-Clerici, Stephen Sze, Kevin Browning Project Year 2013

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.

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负责设计的合伙人伯恩哈德·卡普夫(Bernhard Karpf)评论道：“通过以克制、优雅的态度对待外部外观，并通过一系列更具表现力的元素将内部庭院和中庭联系在一起，该建筑向内翻转，以符合客户的要求，即建造一座吸引人的、可识别的总部大楼。”

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.” 

总部的设计始于庭院建筑与一栋混合大楼的组织系统的配对，该混合大楼包含多种不同的方案用途，如公寓、培训学院、办公室和一栋单一和可识别的大楼内的零售空间。对这些不同的方案用途的组织进行了独特的规划，以便在计划和章节中为每次使用提供最大的好处。

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 organization of these various disparate programmatic uses are planned uniquely to provide the maximum benefits for each use in plan and section. 

建筑的外部是一个连续的、铰接均匀的外壳，上面有追踪项目内部差异的精心设计。内部包含和揭示一系列分享的经验，其不同的部分。

The exterior of the building reads as a continuous and evenly articulated shell with elaborations that trace the internal differences of the project. The interior contains and reveals a series of shared experiences of its disparate parts. 

起伏的天花板覆盖了中庭，将下面的公共领域(培训学院、商店、咖啡馆、画廊)与上面的私人功能(住宅、办公室)分开，但也通过它创造的戏剧性的内部景观将它们统一起来。在关键时刻，这一元素在建筑物的外部被揭示出来，作为通过建筑物的邀请。天花板平面转变成一个锥的水平延伸，它既能照亮中庭空间，又能提供垂直循环。它成为一种建筑特色和一件雕塑作品，激活了中庭上方的庭院；它将项目的所有规划功能拼接在一起，并赋予建筑的形象性，辐射到城市环境中。

The undulating ceiling which caps the atrium divides the public domain (training academy, shop, café, gallery) below from the private functions (residential, office) above but also unifies them through the dramatic interior landscape it creates. This element is revealed on the exterior of the building in key moments as invitation to come through the building. The ceiling plane transforms into and becomes the horizontal extension of a cone which serves to both light the atrium space and provide vertical circulation. It becomes an architectural feature and a sculptural piece which activates the courtyard above the atrium; it stitches together all of the programmatic functions of the project and gives an iconicity for the building, radiating out to the urban context. 

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Richard Meier & Partners was selected following an international competition, involving Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects. The new building is projected to open by 2015. 

Richard Meier评论道：“我们在德国工作了30多年，从法兰克福装饰艺术博物馆开始，最近在汉堡HafenCity开发中心的咖啡广场大楼工作。我们很高兴被选中为恩格尔设计新的总部。

Richard Meier comments: “We have worked in Germany for more than 30 years, starting with the Museum for the Decorative Arts in Frankfurt and most recently with the Coffee Plaza building also in the HafenCity Development in Hamburg. We are delighted to be selected to design the new headquarters for Engel & Völkers. Our proposal reflects a continuous, open and clear organization of the intricate program requirements. The project accommodates various qualities of space and light, making for an architecture that is not only monumental but visually and functionally sensitive.

我们非常期待建造新的恩格尔。

We greatly look forward to building the new Engel & Völkers complex and we hope to continue contributing to the rich urban fabric of Hamburg.”