One year after the foundation stone was laid, the topping-out ceremony for a new residential project by Gerber Architekten has taken place in Hamburg. Senator Karen Pein and Snezana Michaelis, member of the SAGA Management Board, emphasised the signal effect of this project in view of the serious need for housing in the Hanseatic city.

The 153 flats of various sizes and with adjoining underground car parks are embedded in a park-like landscape with mature trees. Each of the 1-5 room flats has a balcony or terrace. Together with the adjoining residential building by Gerber Architekten, they form a new district centre in the middle of a heterogeneous environment of detached houses and multi-storey residential buildings. With the typical regional clinker brick façade and the combination of housing and retail, a new centre with a high quality of life and living is being created near Hagenbeck’s zoo. Occupancy of the new flats is scheduled to begin in a year’s time.