The Elphi could be seen as of corruption, since the whole project was initially advertised at costing the city about a hundred and something millions, the rest to be raised by private donations, 30 to 40 million initially IIRC.

Now the town basically has subsidized a hotel, a few luxury condos, some gastronomy, and got a few classic music venues which it could have gotten otherwise, and cheaper. Besides that it already had those before.

Furthermore I don't see the need to fake the look of this

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaispeicher_A#/media/Datei:Kai...

by totally removing the core of it, and putting that new thing on top, instead of simply tearing it down, and build something really new from the bottom up.

I mean, if it had been this building

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaispeicher_A#/media/Datei:Kai...

it would at least have had a history, including the timeball on top of it, which signalled the ships the exact time they could adjust their chronometers to at exact 12:00hrs.

But it wasn't. Just a functional building to store cocoa and coffee beans, built in 1963 over the ruin of the former building.

Was that worth to uphold the facade of? 798.000.000€ for the town, and about 100.000.000€ by some fanbois, and who knows who?

I don't get it.

"Das Wahrzeichen des Wahnsinns. Mors, Mors."