Atelier Kempe Thill

Recently Atelier Kempe Thill received the third prize for an international three-stage competition. The tender had two focuses. The reconstruction of the Bornplatz synagogue, an orthodox temple that was destroyed during the Kristallnacht. And next to it, the design of a new building serving a liberal Jewish community, in the Grindel district of Hamburg. The Atelier Kempe Thill–Thörner Kaczmarek team proposed to carefully rebuild the destroyed Bornplatz synagogue. This by re-using the still existing foundations and original building materials left behind on the site, in combination with a new interior concept. The liberal synagogue and a building for amenities are both new and form together with the orthodox building a new spatial ensemble for the Jewish communities of Hamburg.