1959 Press Photo Hospital design by Hamburg architect Werner Kallmorgan

Hospital with mountain air; This hospital will be built in Hamburg Othmarsohen. It is designed by the Hamburg architect Werner Kallmorgan, and the design was not given the first prize at the competition of the architects for the new hospital. According to this design, centre of the complex is to be the house with the beds which will have 15 storages. On the roof there will be a terrasse for relaxing, there the sick will be able to breath "mountain air". The rooms will all face south and will hold 982 patients. The additional wing will have three to five storage's and will contain rooms for operations ambulance stations and special departments. Doctors and nurses will live in the smaller houses at the edge of the hospital sits. They will start building next year and will finish in 1965. The whole project will cost at least 30 millions mark (about 3 million pounds)

Photo measures 8 x 6 inches.

Photo is dated 2-6-1959.



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