Spectacular German concert hall covets Sydney dazzle
By Deborah Cole (AFP) – Jun 26, 2010
HAMBURG, Germany — Germany’s second city Hamburg is building a dazzling new concert hall intended to rival the Sydney Opera House as a global attraction, but little has gone according to plan.
Construction delays, building defects and a price explosion have led even the developers to admit the landmark project has hurtled out of control, with no one able to say what the hall will finally cost or when it will open.
Meanwhile local artists fear the audacious development at the city’s 800-year-old port will eclipse the scruffy homegrown cultural scene that gave rise to future legends like The Beatles, who cut their teeth in Hamburg’s red-light district clubs.
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At an official presentation of the building’s towering skeleton late last month, Mayor Ole von Beust said the dream was to create an indelible landmark on the order of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty or Sydney Opera House.
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