Hamburg concert hall a disaster

2012-09-14T00:25:00

Herzog and de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie concert hall under construction

Source: Angelika Warmuth/PA

The scheme for the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie is breathtaking in its bombastic and overweighted ugliness (News September 7) — is this what Herzog & de Meuron has come to?

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