18/11/2025
𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮
Located on the Baakenhöft peninsula in HafenCity, the new home of the Hamburg State Opera and Hamburg Ballet is conceived as a public building within a park. Rising from the water’s edge, the design unfolds as a series of terraced roofs that invite visitors to walk across the building and experience views of the Elbe and the city beyond. Inside, stone pavements from the park continue into a light-filled foyer leading to the main hall, where curved balconies and horizontal bands of timber create a unified space for audience and performers.
“The new Hamburg State Opera inhabits an island at the heart of HafenCity bookended by the vertical landmarks of Elbturm and Elbphilharmonie.
The opera will appear like a landscape of concentric terraces – emanating like soundwaves from a central beating heart of music, expanding outward into the harbor like ripples on the surface of the sea.
The result is a three-dimensional public park open and accessible from all sides, with expansive views in all directions – to the old city and the new, to Lohse Park and the Industrial Port.
We are honored to have been chosen to imagine this key puzzle piece of the transformation of Hamburg’s HafenCity, and we are deeply grateful to Herr und Frau Kühne to be entrusted to turn their generosity into the city’s new epicenter for the performing arts.” - Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
📸 Yanis Amasri
, Hamburg – meine Stadt, Staatsoper Hamburg, Theatre Projects, , Bollinger + Grohmann, Transsolar, Duschl Ingenieure designboom
HafenCity waterfront to see new Hamburg State Opera The new Hamburg State Opera by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) will establish a contemporary home for the State Opera and Hamburg Ballet. The project is set to be located on the Baakenhöft peninsula in HafenCity — a sprawling waterfront development ....
