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Medienhafen
Around the margins and in the gaps left by design-led redevelopment lie areas which indicate where the finance failed. Marked by mounds of moved earth, roads to nowhere and encroaching scrub these...
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Around Medienhafen
Easter, Düsseldorf We stayed at Courtyard in Medienhafen. It was cheap, perhaps because it is a business hotel and it was Easter. They gave us a chocolate bunny which we ate on a walk around the...
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Stadttor –“ein Highlight der modernen Architektur in Düsseldorf”
Stadttor, Düsseldorf Stadttor is a combined use building designed by the architects Overdiek Petzinka and Ptnrs, near the Gehry building in Medienhafen. It was completed in 1997. This era of...
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Modernism is yellow, modernism is red and today the sky is blue
Centro Cultural Niemeyer, Avilés If postmodernity, in its postindustrial sense, is a place then it can be seen in Avilés. The imperatives of socio-economic re-vitalisation gave rise to an Oscar...
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RGB in Leòn
Mansilla and Tuñon borrowed colours from stained-glass images in the cathedral Santa Maria de León to anoint the façade of MUSAC. Graphic, rather than hagiographic like the figurative images delineated...
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Mines, histories, mountains
SANAA, Zollverein, Essen.This SANAA (Kazuye Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) building lies on the edge of the post-industrial site of Zollverein in the Ruhr. Zollverein is a former coal washing plant now...
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