Hansaviertel District

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area. The project was carried out as a collaborative effort by 48 leading architects from thirteen different countries. The complex comprises accommodation of all types, ranging from detached houses with gardens to town-houses and grouped and high-rise blocks of flats, together with a congress hall, school and crèche, Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, a library, a cinema (now a children's theater) and shops, grouped around a U-Bahn station. Worth noting are the eight-story building owned by the Finn Alvar Aalto near the Hansaplatz U- Bahn Station; Günther Gottwald's four-story house on Klopstockstrasse, where the flats have sliding walls; Walter Gropius' large curved block of flats in Händelallee, where the sculpture in sheet-copper named "Daybreak No. 1" (Morgendämmerung Nr. 1) also stands; the colorful block built by the Frenchman Pierre Vago with its staggered balconies; the blue and red painted building by Fritz Jaenecke and Sten Samuelson on Altonaer Strasse; the building opposite by the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer on four splayed supports; and the seventeen-story high-rise block of 164 individual apartments by Klaus Müller-Rehm and Gerhard Siegmann on the southern edge. The lending library by Werner Düttmann, built around an inner courtyard, is a very original design. The abstract steel sculpture "Memorial to an Unknown Knitter of Pullovers" by the Hansaplatz was by Hans Uhlmann in 1960. A few yards away in Hanseatenweg No. 10, the Academy of Arts regularly mounts exhibitions and gives concerts and theatrical performances.