There is little that that the Second Avenue subway line in New York and the new concert hall Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg have in common. Except that both projects were recently completed after decades of haggling and delay, both are more expensive than anything comparable has ever been before and in both cases it is a miracle that they got done at all. Both appear to be vestiges of a time when the thought of a really large project was still...

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The philharmonic hall sits in Hafen City

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Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
Baltimore MD
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