Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

This guide to the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg follows software designer Benjamin Koren's algorithm-driven acoustic panels, the White Skin, and the seven-year workshop effort outside Munich that machined tens of thousands of individually shaped surfaces into the concert hall's walls. It traces how the building rose from the brick shell of a nineteen-sixties cocoa warehouse, Kaispeicher A, and the drawn-out dispute between the city, architects and builders that the project became. Run your hand along a panel near you and feel the pattern the code cut into it.