Project:
Best Western Premier – Veritaskai, Hamburg

This hotel with conference rooms, set in the inland harbour at Harburg, was conceived as a 4-star hotel under the brand “Best Western Premier” and focusses mainly on business customers.

As well as the 214 rooms in the high-rise tower (some of them long-stay rooms and suites on the top floor), the two-storey base of the building contains the restaurant (ground floor) and a conference level (1st floor). The conference level has been designed for around 400 guests and, as well as a large hall (which can be divided up), it has four conference rooms with a view across the harbour, and a generous foyer area, also for conference use. There are also rooms available for the provision of food and drink for the conference level through external catering. As well as the hotel’s own restaurant, there is a branch of the restaurant chain “l’Osteria” on the western part of the premises, including an outside area.

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Shell construction

The building has a reinforced concrete pile foundation and has been erected using reinforced concrete construction methods.
There are two core stairways which provide additional reinforcement. The public areas in the two -storey base will also have some reinforced concrete supports, whilst maintaining the largest possible and most flexible areas of usable space. The large conference room (around 350 m²) will be without supports. On the floors which contain the hotel rooms, every second separating wall will be a load-bearing retaining wall made of reinforced concrete. The other separating walls are to be made of plasterboard, as are the walls in the corridors.

Facade

The facade of the high-rise tower consists of a shell construction punctuated facade made of reinforced concrete, in front of which a rear-ventilated glass facade will be hung.
The glass elements are arranged at different angles, so that a glittering reflective effect is created for the viewer. The facade is divided up horizontally by projections similar to pilaster strips.
Each hotel room is to have a window with an openable section. The window area of the interior is to be used as a seating corner. The floors in the base of the building will have in part a clinker facade, and in part a mullion and transom facade. The main entrance of the hotel will be roofed over.

Outdoor areas

A competition is being held for the design of the outdoor areas. This will include the hotel entrance drive with the drop-off and pick-up area, as well as a further five parking spaces for “l’Osteria”. Further parking facilities required for the hotel and “l’Osteria” are provided in the local multi-storey car park which is located diagonally opposite the hotel.
The quay wall is under a preservation order and is to undergo restoration in advance of the construction project, as was previously done in the adjacent area of the “Kaispeicher” ten years ago. One section of the wall is to be removed to allow for terracing of the outdoor area down to the water. Here, a sheet pile wall with concrete beams will be positioned in front of the existing quay wall, for ships to tie up. This kind of sheet pile wall was also previously constructed in front of the adjacent “Kaispeicher”.

Key data „Veritaskai“

18-storey high-rise building (with basement) approx. 12,800 m² gross floor area
Area of site: approx. 5,974 m²
Number of rooms in 16 storeys of hotel rooms: 214
Size of double rooms: approx. 22.5 m²
Conference level: approx. 400 guests
Reception area with restaurant: approx. 165 seats

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