Danish practice COBE Architects have broken ground on a housing and office complex on the Bremen Harbor in northwest Germany. Titled Europahafenkopf, the project aims to transform the city's industrial port to a new urban area.

The program includes four buildings housing residences, offices, commercial space, and a car park. Located at the end of the harbor, the project was made to connect the historical city core with Bremen’s new neighborhood.
Named Europahafenkopf, the four buildings are inspired by the architecture and the roof-scapes of the surrounding context and the project aims to create an ensemble of buildings each with their own character, yet with a strong sense of coherence.
 
"Our vision for the Europahafenkopf development is to create a place that celebrates Bremen’s historical city core with its unique renaissance buildings and combines it with the silos and warehouses of the industrial port. We drew inspiration from the two city quarters in terms of scale, material expression, detailing and design and then reinterpreted these features architecturally.

To both sides of the site, are areas with strong architectural identity and character – the historical city with its rich and expressive Weser-Renaissance architecture on the one side, and the harbor area with its silos, warehouses and industrial buildings on the other."
Dan Stubbergaard, founder of COBE

An open ground floor connects the buildings, connecting the twosides of the plot, to create an urban ensemble - rather than a series of independent buildings, and to be a link betweenthe historical city and the harbour, with a wide range of public functions, including cafés, shops, galleries and a sprawling street food market.

The façade material will be mainly red concrete, brick and metal. Panels of curved red conrete and glass make up the facade of the central office building.

Housing and offices will be placed on top of the halls which encircle green courtyards.

The project is financed and built by the local Gustav Zech Foundation and scheduled to be completed in 2021.
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COBE



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Dan Stubbergaard, Caroline Nagel. Katharina Erfurt, Simon Sjökvist, Yannick Courtin, Greta Tiedje, Max Neumeister, Rasmus Lassen, Anna Pieranska, Caroline Beck, Casper Borg, Tobias Laukenmann, Rosa Bui, Clement Bue Maali, Cristina Marigo, Hjalte Thorn Bidsted, Karoline Liedtke, Ornella Clappier, William Gardner, Marianne Filtenborg, Bo Peng, Lorenzo Maccacaro, Roberto Barbosa Rojas, Elina Kiriiak, Daniel da Piedade Rodrigues
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JES Julia Erdmann Socialtecture, Gildehaus Lankenau Architekten BDA, BPW baumgart+partner, InFaCon GmbH, Ecotec GmbH, ConcreTec GmbH & Co. KG, STB Sabotke – Timm & Partner, Ebert Ingenieure GmbH.
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Zech Group GmbH
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77,000 m²
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1st prize in mastership of ideas in 2018, completion in 2021
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COBE is a limited liability company owned by Founder and Creative Director Dan Stubbergaard. COBE is a progressive and contemporary community of architects that focuses on architecture and design – from buildings to public space, to large scale urban planning. In 2005 Dan Stubbergaard and Vanessa Miriam Carlow founded COBE. The name COBE is derived from the two cities the founders are coming from - COpenhagen and BErlin. Since its establishment, COBE has gained international recognition through the realization of beautiful and innovative projects.

Today, COBE is two separate companies - one seated in Copenhagen (COBE ApS headed by Dan Stubbergaard), and one in Berlin (COBE Berlin GmbH headed by Prof. Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow). The two offices have shared a number of projects in the past, and apart from developing projects individually, they continue to share and collaborate on selected projects - also in the future.

COBE is situated in a refurbished warehouse centrally located on the Copenhagen harbor front, and currently employs approximately 50 dedicated architects, urban planners and administrative staff of different nationalities.

COBE is run by a management team consisting of Dan Stubbergaard and a core team of Project and Administration Managers. Together, they are responsible for the company’s overall development and strategic long-term goals.

All projects are developed in project teams, made up of a mix of senior and junior architects, which are led by a Project Manager. Cross-disciplinary teamwork is central in our working method and each project team cooperates with a wide range of external experts in order to obtain the best opportunities and potential towards finding innovative solutions in each particular project.

Selected awards.-

[2012] Nykredit’s Architecture Prize. Nykredit Foundation.
           MIPIM Award - Best Refurbished Building. The Library Marché International des Professionnels de l'Immobilier.
[2011] Copenhagen Award for Architecture - Best Public Building. The Library. City of Copenhagen.
[2006] The Golden Lion. Best National Pavilion. International Venice Biennale of Architecture.

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Published on: February 16, 2019
Cite: "Europahafenkopf, new housing and office complex by COBE" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/europahafenkopf-new-housing-and-office-complex-cobe> ISSN 1139-6415
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