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Grindelhochhäuser (Grindel Highrises), Hamburg, Germany

The Grindel Highrises (Grindelhochhäuser) are a post-war residential estate in Hamburg, Germany. Built between 1946 and 1956, it was originally conceived after World War II under the name "Hamburg project" and intended to provide accommodations for the British occupation troops. When the British decided to build their headquarters in Frankfurt/Main instead of Hamburg, the City of Hamburg took over and completed the project. The buildings were the first highrise apartment buildings in Germany and were very modern by the standard of their time, providing central heating, elevators, garbage chutes (later removed) and spacious apartments with large windows and plenty of natural light. The project is based on theories and visions developed in the inter-war era, most notably Ludwig Hilberseimer's "Hochhausstadt" (highrise city) from 1924, which itself also had a strong influence on the development of socialist housing architecture. And of course the buildings also reference Le Corbusier's concept of the "Unité d'Habitation" which he first presented in 1925. The group of architects that designed the Grindel highrises - Bernhard Hermkes, Bernhard Hopp, Carl Karpinski, Rudolf Jäger, Rudolf Lodders, Albrecht Sander, Ferdinand Streb, Fritz Trautwein and Hermann Zess - was chosen because they had not worked under the Nazi regime. The estate comprises twelve building slabs - six taller ones at 14 stories and six smaller ones at eight stories. The project uses height to clear space on the ground: the population density of the estate is not higher than in the surrounding low-rise districts, but building taller allowed to leave wide areas between the buildings open as a park and for recreation. The resulting park-like landscape is also free from car traffic (a novelty at the time) - car access is restricted to four loop roads along the edges of the site. While all buildings are located on an exact north-south axis, they are arranged alternatingly in such a way that the space between the buildings is maximized, thus affording wide views into the park from each of the apartments. Even though all buildings share the same facade materials - yellow brick and white window frames - each of the buildings is architecturally unique and develops its own individuality through the arrangement of windows and loggias, entrance halls, cantilevered first upper floors or cantilevered roofs. Cantilevered roofs above the ground floor are present in all six larger buildings, making for a covered walkway shielding pedestrians from rain. Today, ten of the twelve buildings are still owned by Hamburg's housing association SAGA GWG, one building houses the municipal district offices for the district Hamburg-Eimsbüttel and one building is privately owned. The entire estate including the park is listed as a protected monument since 1979. This video intends to present the architecture of the estate in calm, meditative images. It is accompanied by a song from my own music project "Kenji Kojima". Video by Tobias Münch - http://photography.kotogoto.com Music by Kenji Kojima - https://kenjikojima.bandcamp.com