Project and image photos
Rights of use for visual material:
Restricted rights of use apply to all photos. Photos may be used for editorial work only. Any other commercial use is prohibited. Every picture must be published with a copyright notice.
Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
With the “Elphi” Hamburg received a new landmark: HOCHTIEF realized the highly complex building in the middle of the harbor, built on top of an historic quayside warehouse. The Elbe Philharmonic Hall, which was inaugurated in 2016, is Hamburg’s queen of cultural buildings. The large concert hall is a work of art in itself. 10,000 sound-reflecting panels on walls and ceilings in the concert hall—each one individually milled—ensures an optimal listening experience.
Downloads :
Elbe Philharmonic Hall, Hamburg, Germany
Copyright : © Udo Thomas
With the “Elphi” Hamburg received a new landmark: HOCHTIEF realized the highly complex building in the middle of the harbor, built on top of an historic quayside warehouse. The Elbe Philharmonic Hall, which was inaugurated in 2016, is Hamburg’s queen of cultural buildings. The large concert hall is a work of art in itself. 10,000 sound-reflecting panels on walls and ceilings in the concert hall—each one individually milled—ensures an optimal listening experience.
Downloads :
Zollverein Colliery, Essen, Germany (UNESCO World Cultural Heritage)
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
With the Zollverein colliery, HOCHTIEF has constructed a real industrial monument. The Zollverein colliery, also known as the "Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr”, was an active hard coal mine in Essen from 1851 to 1986. Today it serves as both an architectural and an industrial monument. Together with the immediately adjacent Zollverein coking plant, the shaft systems 12 and 1/2/8 of the colliery have been part of UNESCO World Heritage since 2001.
Downloads :
Zollverein Colliery, Essen, Germany (UNESCO World Cultural Heritage)
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
With the Zollverein colliery, HOCHTIEF has constructed a real industrial monument. The Zollverein colliery, also known as the "Eiffel Tower of the Ruhr”, was an active hard coal mine in Essen from 1851 to 1986. Today it serves as both an architectural and an industrial monument. Together with the immediately adjacent Zollverein coking plant, the shaft systems 12 and 1/2/8 of the colliery have been part of UNESCO World Heritage since 2001.
Downloads :
Gotthard Tunnel, Switzerland
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
As the world’s longest railway tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel covers a distance of 57 kilometers to connect Germany with Italy. After a construction time of 17 years, the tunnel was opened in June 2016 for passenger and freight trains. Together with partners commissioned by AlpTransit Gotthard AG, HOCHTIEF’s tunnel construction experts built the shell construction of the two southern contract sections of the Gotthard Base Tunnel. In the mammoth project, HOCHTIEF excavated 28.2 million tons of rock from the tunnel—the equivalent of four Great Pyramids of Giza.
Downloads :
Gotthard Tunnel, Switzerland
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
As the world’s longest railway tunnel, the Gotthard Base Tunnel covers a distance of 57 kilometers to connect Germany with Italy. After a construction time of 17 years, the tunnel was opened in June 2016 for passenger and freight trains. Together with partners commissioned by AlpTransit Gotthard AG, HOCHTIEF’s tunnel construction experts built the shell construction of the two southern contract sections of the Gotthard Base Tunnel. In the mammoth project, HOCHTIEF excavated 28.2 million tons of rock from the tunnel—the equivalent of four Great Pyramids of Giza.
Downloads :
Subway line 4 HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
The U4 metro which HOCHTIEF built in Hamburg’s HafenCity is one of Europe’s biggest urban development projects, involving tunnel tubes with a diameter of 5.5 meters. Since December 2012, the U4 railway line links the HafenCity urban development project with transportation hubs in Hamburg’s city center. HOCHTIEF was the technical leader of the project, which was realized by a joint venture.
Downloads :
Bremerhaven port tunnel, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
The new port tunnel being built on Cherbourger Straße in Bremerhaven is one of the city’s most important infrastructure projects on the Weser estuary. The tunnel is designed as an approach road for the highway, and in future it will link the international port and commercial areas nearby with the A27 highway. The underpass is around two kilometers long and runs with two lanes through a residential area and over a drinking water reservoir. HOCHTIEF has been building Bremerhaven Port Tunnel, using the cut-and-cover construction method.
Downloads :
Bremerhaven port tunnel, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
The new port tunnel being built on Cherbourger Straße in Bremerhaven is one of the city’s most important infrastructure projects on the Weser estuary. The tunnel is designed as an approach road for the highway, and in future it will link the international port and commercial areas nearby with the A27 highway. The underpass is around two kilometers long and runs with two lanes through a residential area and over a drinking water reservoir. HOCHTIEF has been building Bremerhaven Port Tunnel, using the cut-and-cover construction method.
Downloads :
Metro North, Copenhagen, Denmark
Copyright : © Mark Dexter
Since 2014, HOCHTIEF has been expanding the metro network in Copenhagen in a joint venture at a cost of 150 million euros. The tunnel construction project is part of the Danish capital’s Cityringen circle route commissioned by the public transport company Metroselskabet. In addition to building 3.5 kilometers of tunnel route, the project also includes the turnkey construction of Nordhavn metro station. The tunnel boring machine is being used to build two tunnels, 1,800 and 1,600 meters long.
Downloads :
Metro North, Copenhagen, Denmark
Copyright : © Mark Dexter
Since 2014, HOCHTIEF has been expanding the metro network in Copenhagen in a joint venture at a cost of 150 million euros. The tunnel construction project is part of the Danish capital’s Cityringen circle route commissioned by the public transport company Metroselskabet. In addition to building 3.5 kilometers of tunnel route, the project also includes the turnkey construction of Nordhavn metro station. The tunnel boring machine is being used to build two tunnels, 1,800 and 1,600 meters long.
Downloads :
A7 highway Hamburg, Germany
Copyright : © Dominik Reipka
Since 2015, HOCHTIEF has been planning, financing and building a 65-kilometer-long section of the A7 highway between the intersections Hamburg-Northwest and Bordesholm as a public-private partnership (PPP) project. Furthermore, HOCHTIEF is operating and maintaining a 59-kilometer-long section of the A7 between Hamburg and Neumünster for 30 years. The responsible consortium with HOCHTIEF is called Via Solutions Nord. The construction costs amount to 600 million euros.
Downloads :
A7 hoghway Langenfelde Bridge, Hamburg, Germany
Copyright : © Dominik Reipka
HOCHTIEF widened the Langenfelde Bridge in Hamburg-Stellingen to eight lanes along the A7. This involved constructing the composite steel and concrete bridge using a sideway shift process. The work included road and rail construction, but also rainwater retention reservoirs and retaining walls. The work in Germany’s busiest highway section was performed while both highway and railway were operating.
Downloads :
Bad Cannstatt Tunnel, Stuttgart 21, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
Along a length of 3.8 kilometers, HOCHTIEF is building the Bad Cannstatt railway tunnel for long-distance and local urban rail. In the course of the Stuttgart 21 project, the tunnel is to link Stuttgart main railway station with the new Neckar Bridge. The two single-track tubes of Bad Cannstatt Tunnel link up in a joint twin-track tube. After this, it runs parallel to the local urban railway’s Rosenstein Tunnel and ends at Neckar Bridge. HOCHTIEF is performing the work in a joint venture.
Downloads :
Bad Cannstatt Tunnel, Stuttgart 21, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
Along a length of 3.8 kilometers, HOCHTIEF is building the Bad Cannstatt railway tunnel for long-distance and local urban rail. In the course of the Stuttgart 21 project, the tunnel is to link Stuttgart main railway station with the new Neckar Bridge. The two single-track tubes of Bad Cannstatt Tunnel link up in a joint twin-track tube. After this, it runs parallel to the local urban railway’s Rosenstein Tunnel and ends at Neckar Bridge. HOCHTIEF is performing the work in a joint venture.
Downloads :
Granitz Valley Tunnel Chain Joint Venture, Austria
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF/Sellinger
In a joint venture HOCHTIEF is constructing the six-kilometer-long Granitz Valley tunnel chain, which runs between Lavant Valley and Jaun Valley in Austria as part of the “Koralm Railway”. The tunnel chain consists of the Deutsch-Grutschen Tunnel (2.6 km), the Granitztal Tunnel (0.6 km) and the Langer Berg Tunnel (2.9 km). This involves a twin-tube tunnel system.
Downloads :
Lennetal Bridge, Hagen, Germany
Copyright : © Ekkehardt Viefhaus
With the construction of the Lennetal Bridge on the A45 highway near Hagen, HOCHTIEF has been realizing a unique project since 2013: a new 1,000-meter-long crossing is being built on provisional supports next to the aging bridge. The sideway shift process, whereby the one-kilometer-long West bridge is shifted laterally to its final supports and the provisional supports are demolished, is a particular challenge.
Downloads :
Lennetal Bridge, Hagen, Germany
Copyright : © Ekkehardt Viefhaus
With the construction of the Lennetal Bridge on the A45 highway near Hagen, HOCHTIEF has been realizing a unique project since 2013: a new 1,000-meter-long crossing is being built on provisional supports next to the aging bridge. The sideway shift process, whereby the one-kilometer-long West bridge is shifted laterally to its final supports and the provisional supports are demolished, is a particular challenge.
Downloads :
Tower 185, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Copyright : © Claus Graubner
Tower 185 is a 50-story skyscraper in Frankfurt am Main near Frankfurt Trade Fair and bordering onto the Europaviertel district. HOCHTIEF was responsible for the shell construction of the almost 200-meter-high office building with 100,000 square meters of floor space from 2008 to 2011. The basis of the building is a horseshoe-shaped plinth building, from which two sections of a skyscraper rise up.
Downloads :
Marienturm Tower, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
From 2015 to 2019, HOCHTIEF built the Marienturm Tower in the banking district of Frankfurt am Main. The 155-meter-high tower is located on the island Marieninsel. Marienturm Tower provides 38 upper floors and three basement floors, covering 70,000 square meters of floor space. The draft for Marienturm Tower was chosen in an architecture competition in September 2013, and comes from the architects’ office Müller-Reimann from Berlin.
Downloads :
NRW State Archive, Duisburg, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
As general contractor, HOCHTIEF constructed the turnkey building for the NRW State Archive in Duisburg’s inner harbor. Previously the old warehouse of the haulage firm Rheinisch-Westfälische-Speditionsgesellschaft from the 1930s stood here. The new State Archive consists of a revitalized former warehouse and a wave-shaped new building. It was inaugurated in mid-2013 and, with its 134 kilometers of shelves, it is the biggest archive in Europe.
Downloads :
Ista Headquarters, Essen, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
In November 2017, the energy service provider Ista was able to move into its new company headquarters in Essen, near the trade fair. HOCHTIEF planned and built the office building. In the building, flexible floor plan solutions and an interior concept aimed at openness and transparency were constructed.
Downloads :
Praedium Building Ensemble, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Copyright : © Claus Graubner
The Praedium ensemble consists of an eight-story building and a residential tower with 19 floors. The project was completed in a construction time of 23 months in April 2017. At a height of 66 meters, the Praedium ensemble belongs to the high-rise buildings of Frankfurt’s Europaviertel district. It houses 242 condominiums and 159 apartments in the tower.
Downloads :
Moers City Hall, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions planned, financed and built the “City Hall and Educational Center in Moers”. HOCHTIEF was responsible for design management, structural design, facade consulting and construction physics consulting. The education center with an investment volume of 72 million euros was opened in 2010 and the city hall was opened two years later. HOCHTIEF is scheduled to operate both buildings for 23 years.
Downloads :
Moers City Hall, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions planned, financed and built the “City Hall and Educational Center in Moers”. HOCHTIEF was responsible for design management, structural design, facade consulting and construction physics consulting. The education center with an investment volume of 72 million euros was opened in 2010 and the city hall was opened two years later. HOCHTIEF is scheduled to operate both buildings for 23 years.
Downloads :
Paul Moor School, Nuremberg, Germany
Copyright : © Michael Voigt
Since 2014, the public-private partnership (PPP) project of the Paul Moor School in Nuremberg has provided a modern education facility for around 190 pupils. HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions is also realizing rooms for five remedial classes and a preparatory school facility. In addition to planning and financing, HOCHTIEF is also taking over operation of the building until 2039, in order to sustainably ensure good conditions for best education. The investment volume is 19.5 million euros.
Downloads :
Paul Moor School, Nuremberg, Germany
Copyright : © Michael Voigt
Since 2014, the public-private partnership (PPP) project of the Paul Moor School in Nuremberg has provided a modern education facility for around 190 pupils. HOCHTIEF PPP Solutions is also realizing rooms for five remedial classes and a preparatory school facility. In addition to planning and financing, HOCHTIEF is also taking over operation of the building until 2039, in order to sustainably ensure good conditions for best education. The investment volume is 19.5 million euros.
Downloads :
Stage Theater on the Elbe, Hamburg, Germany
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
HOCHTIEF realized a musical theater for 1,800 guests in Hamburg Harbor on behalf of the theater operator Stage Entertainment. After two and a half years’ construction time, musicals such as “The Miracle of Bern” or “Mary Poppins” have been performed here since November 2014. From all seats, the theater offers an ideal line of sight to the stage, whether they are located in the stand or in the stalls. If you stand directly in front of the theater, a wonderful view of Hamburg and its harbor opens up.
Downloads :
Prague State Opera, Czech Republic
Copyright : © HOCHTIEF
Since 2017, HOCHTIEF has been refurbishing the State Opera in Prague, which was already inaugurated in 1888. The work not only includes historic parts of the building but also the administrative wing. Perfect craftsmanship is required during repair and overhaul of the historic rooms, including restoration of ceiling murals. Interior furnishings and the technical equipment, including cabling, electrics and heating have already been renovated.
Downloads :
Lake Champlain Bridge, Essex County, NY, USA
Copyright : © Flatiron/Joel Strayer
Since 2011, the 670-meter-long Champlain Bridge in the USA links communities in the federal states of New York and Vermont. The bridge was built by HOCHTIEF subsidiary Flatiron, and it saves its users a 160-kilometer-long detour or an hour’s crossing with the ferry. Instead of the originally planned eight years, Flatiron only required two years for the construction. Constructing large elements on land and then transporting them by ship to the assembly location saved a great deal of time.