{"id":17718,"date":"2017-05-04T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=17718"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:49:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T12:49:06","slug":"hamburg-photos-street-art-graffiti-night-scenes-the-docks-and-the-monochrome-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/hamburg-photos-street-art-graffiti-night-scenes-the-docks-and-the-monochrome-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamburg photos: street art, graffiti, night scenes, the docks and The Monochrome Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hamburg<\/p>\n

I’m still working through the photos from my recent German tour, and here’s a selection of \u00a0over 80 pictures taken around Hamburg, a city I liked very much.<\/p>\n

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Arriving by train.<\/p>\n

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Hamburg is\u00a0the 8th biggest city in the EU (and the second biggest in Germany).<\/p>\n

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By the subway.<\/p>\n

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Street art\u00a0for the Angel Klub by the fish market.<\/p>\n

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Night view.<\/p>\n

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I don’t recall what this dive bar was called – it was near Clockers on\u00a0Paul-Roosen-Stra\u00dfe 27. The beer was great.<\/p>\n

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We were staying in the shockingly awful Hotel Stadt Altona, which was run by Germany’s answer to Basil Fawlty.<\/p>\n

The hotel rooms were filthy and Herr Fawlty<\/em> would loudly tap his watch and shout at \u00a0patrons to finish their breakfast by 10am.<\/p>\n

Here’s some views near the hotel.<\/p>\n

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‘Crazy Night! I can feel it in the air’ says the graffiti.<\/p>\n

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This shiny new on-trend apartment block has something of a\u00a0Bladerunner air about it, with video adverts playing over its facade.<\/p>\n

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Costing \u20ac180 million and standing 85 and 75 metres tall, the\u00a0Dancing Towers are two high-rise office blocks at the eastern end of Reeperbahn, in St. Pauli, Hamburg,<\/p>\n

Designed by BRT Architects of Hadi Teherani and completed in 2012, the\u00a0two towers symbolise a couple dancing the Tango.<\/p>\n

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Designed by architect Fritz Trautwein, the Heinrich-Hertz-Turm radio telecommunication tower was built between 1965\u20131968\u00a0and with an\u00a0overall height of 279.2 m (916 ft) it is Hamburg’s tallest structure.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a> has more detail:<\/p>\n

There are eight concentric platforms stacked one above the other: starting at 128 m (420 ft) with the two-story observation (lower floor) and restaurant (upper floor) platform, served by two high-speed elevators. Above that at 150 m (492 ft) is the operations platform housing the workforce and equipment, and further up six differentially sized, smaller open platforms in same distances, populated with high-gain directional microwave radio relay antennas (“parabolic mirrors”). Number nine was added at 25 m height in July 2005.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After both the\u00a0observation platform and restaurant were closed due to asbestos decontamination, former stuntman Jochen Schweitzer set up a bungee jumping platform. This closed in 2001.<\/p>\n

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The fabulously brutalist\u00a0Hamburg Flak towers<\/a> stand within site of St. Pauli’s stadium.<\/p>\n

Now home to a music school, shops and a nightclub, they were built in WW2 as near-indestructible fortresses designed to mount a long-term defence against attacking armies.<\/p>\n

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Street scenes and graffiti art around St Pauli:<\/p>\n

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Delightful architecture of Carolinen Passage.<\/p>\n

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A rather deflated peacock.<\/p>\n

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Loved this old Mercedes hearse which looks like it had driven straight out of the Ipcress File movie.<\/p>\n

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City centre view.<\/p>\n

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Tourist tack.<\/p>\n

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Men in leather jackets gather outside a gun shop.<\/p>\n

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Eek!<\/p>\n

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Night time scenes around the docks.<\/p>\n

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That boat is definitely British.<\/p>\n

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The striking modern architecture of the Dockland office building<\/a>, on Edgar-Engelhard-Kai, a quay located between the Norderelbe, the northern arm of the Elbe River, and the Fischereihafen fishing harbour.<\/p>\n

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Loved this sticker inside the\u00a0Hafenklang club<\/a>, where I was performing with the Monochrome Set.<\/p>\n

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Support band in action.<\/p>\n

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The venue was brilliant, hosting a live music space & nightclub in a former recording studio. Everywhere around has gentrified into new-urban-loft-dwelling-lifestyle-living-hell, so I do worry how long this place can continue before the yuppie complaints roll in.<\/p>\n

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My drum kit for the night.<\/p>\n

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[Gig pics by Vanessa Musson<\/em>]<\/p>\n

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Cobbled street and rain, in a scene reminiscent of one of my favourite painters, Atkinson Grimshaw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Heading home in the rain with my pals, Jack and Nisha.<\/p>\n

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‘Yip’ went the annoying little dog.<\/p>\n

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Next day we were off to far flung Weikersham.<\/p>\n

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