Overview
- Altona’s Greens won a district majority for converting the redundant Quietschkurve viaduct into a High Line–style promenade, but the city development authority flags the reuse of Sternbrücke parts as too costly and will only examine preserving the existing viaduct.
- Founder Felix Segebrecht says talks with the city and the Hamburg Port Authority are progressing for a pontoon-based Floating Wave in the Fischereihafen, with financing prospects described as positive.
- The planned wave facility is promoted as using roughly 50 percent less energy than typical systems and operating solely with filtered Elbe water without drinking water or chlorine.
- Kunsthalle director Alexander Klar presented a Snøhetta concept that couples a museum expansion with a park and a public bath at the Binnenalster’s northeast shore, to be built above a major junction to maintain traffic, drawing praise from cultural figures and skepticism from planning and culture officials.
- Cross-river cable-car ideas remain constrained after a 2014 referendum rejected a Seilbahn proposal advanced by Stage Entertainment and Doppelmayr, with supporters citing quiet, safe, low-emission transport and opponents warning of harm to the cityscape.