Fletcher Priest has won an international design competition to deliver new housing at a dockyard site in Hamburg.

Its proposals for the HafenCity scheme at the former Baakenhafen dockyard site pay homage to city-based piano maker Steinway & Sons and features 140 apartments, piano workshops and rehearsal spaces, a restaurant and a piano bar.

Named PianoBau, the scheme is earmarked for a waterside plot between Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie and David Chipperfield’s upcoming Elbtower.

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