Two streets in from the Speicherstadt is an eye-catching building inscribed in the same World Heritage Site and lauded by architects for 90 years.
The Chilehaus was built in early 1920s in a style known as Brick Expressionism: The frame is made from reinforced concrete, and is overlaid with 4.8 million grey bricks.
For photos the best angle is on east side where the wavelike facades of this nine-storey wonder convene at a sharp point on the corner of Burchardstraße and Pumpen like the bow of a colossal ship.
