Herzog and de Meuron at Yale - Jacques Herzog lecture, sketch 26

Exterior view.
The ambitious project, the city of Hamburg has commissioned the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron is ongoing. Scheduled to open in 2012, the new Elbe Philharmonic audience has already lifted its top, which seems to float on an old warehouse building.
Elbphilharmonie is expected to be one of the best auditoriums in the world and remodeling project has inspired a wave of glass over 100 m high. The building, budgeted at 450 million euros, will be the focus of the refurbishment of the entire port area of Hamburg.

http://www.trendhomedesign.com/the-construction-of-elbe-philharmonic-herzog-de-meuron