A new picture for the next time you’re teaching Lehi’s dream

What is that … thing?

It is a concert hall built atop a warehouse on the Elbe River.

http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature223.htm

The great and spacious building is decadent art built on commerce?

Nibley’s spirit must feel vindicated.

The linked article speaks in future tense. Has the structure actually been built yet?

Various ambitious urban building projects around the world have turned into boondoggles due to the global economic downturn (notably Burj Dubai, and that island thing.) SLC’s “City Creek” or whatever they call it has prompted concerns too. Look for cancellations or scale-backs.

Construction appears to be will progressed. Use the URLs below to see construction photos, and also a higher resolution version of the rendering posted above.

http://www.elbphilharmonie-bau.de
http://www.elbphilharmonie.de