Elbphilharmonie Plaza

This guide to the Elbphilharmonie Plaza in Hamburg tracks how a modest two thousand one sketch for an affordable glass concert hall on an old cocoa warehouse turned into a runaway budget, with the estimate creeping upward for years before construction stopped completely and the city, architects and contractor spent more than a year arguing in arbitration. You'll hear how a wall of individually curved glass panels kept reopening the fight, and follow the plaza from its planned two thousand ten opening toward a very different date. Ride the curved escalator up past the glinting discs before you step out here.