MY ARCHITECTURAL MOLESKINE® PETER ZUMTHOR KOLUMBA MUSEUM, COLOGNE


MY ARCHITECTURAL MOLESKINE® PETER ZUMTHOR KOLUMBA MUSEUM, COLOGNE

These rutted and charred bricks eventually caught the eye of Peter Zumthor, a Pritzker-prize winning architect from Switzerland, who had just been commissioned to design the Kolumba Museum for the Archdiocese of Cologne's Roman Catholic art collection.


peter zumthor's kolumba museum photographed by rasmus hjortshøj

Peter Zumthor's Kolumba in Cologne is a different kind of museum. Inspirational rather than art historical, its juxtapositions of old and new religious art are meant to stimulate thinking about how different periods have addressed sacred themes.


Gallery of Kolumba Museum / Peter Zumthor 1

Peter Zumthor won the competition with a modest design that would utilise thin, textured, grey handmade brick by Tegl Petersen of Denmark. Additionally, in 1973, the site was given higher status as a historical symbol when Roman, Gothic and medieval ruins were discovered under the old church.


Kolumba Museum by Peter Zumthor A Modest Design RTF Rethinking The Future

The new building designed by Peter Zumthor transfers the sum of the existing fragments into one complete building. In adopting the original plans and building on the ruins, the new building becomes part of the architectural continuum. The warm grey brick of the massive building unite with the tuffs, basalt and bricks of the ruins.


KOLUMBA ART MUSEUM IN COLOGNE by PETER ZUMTHOR Arc Street Journal

Kolumba is the art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne and next to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum the oldest museum in Cologne.


Kolumba Museo d'arte dell'Arcidiocesi di Colonia

'Zumthor's Diocesan Museum shows clearly and movingly the continuity of Christian faith' - Architectural Review Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed.


Peter Zumthor Kolumba Museum, Cologne Peter Zumthor, Kolumba Köln, Kolumba Museum

Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor proposed a thin envelope, which merges itself with the ruins of the church, housing 16 exhibition spaces, a library, space to worship, with a courtyard and a sculpture garden. In his proposal, he even included the memorial chapel known as "Madonna of the ruins" designed by Gottfried Bohm.


Galeria de Museu Kolumba / Peter Zumthor 3

The new building designed by Peter Zumthor transfers the sum of the existing fragments into one complete building. In adopting the original plans and building on the ruins, the new building becomes part of the architectural continuum. The warm grey brick of the massive building unite with the tuffs, basalt and bricks of the ruins.


Museu Kolumba de Peter Zumthor usa material local para reenquadrar a experiência histórica

In this series of images, photographer Rasmus Hjortshøj has captured the Kolumba Museum by renowned architect Peter Zumthor in Cologne, Germany.The museum, constructed atop the ruins of a Gothic.


Gallery of Kolumba Museum / Peter Zumthor 22

Buy now Submit your work to reach 2M creative audience. Learn More Shop Now Lisbon Guide Explore all Guides The Kolumba Museum in Cologne, Germany, is a masterful design by Peter Zumthor that delicately rises from the ruins of a late-Gothic church.


Peter Zumthor's Kolumba Museum Through the Lens of Rasmus Hjortshøj ArchDaily

Kolumba, Cologne, designed by Peter Zumthor and opened in 2007. Courtesy Kolumba. On the night of 30 May 1942, Air Marshal Arthur Harris, Commander-in-Chief of Royal Air Force Bomber Command, launched the first of his 1,000-bomber raids on Nazi Germany. The target was the ancient city of Cologne. By the following morning a sixth of the city's.


KOLUMBA ART MUSEUM IN COLOGNE by PETER ZUMTHOR Arc Street Journal

Kolumba Museum, Cologne (2007) By Peter Zumthor. Book Material Imagination in Architecture. Click here to navigate to parent product. Edition 1st Edition. First Published 2016. Imprint Routledge. Pages 12. eBook ISBN 9781315697499. Share. ABSTRACT .


Gallery of Peter Zumthor's Kolumba Museum Through the Lens of Rasmus Hjortshøj 3

Here's a selection of projects by architect Peter Zumthor, who was named 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate earlier this week ( see our previous story ). Update: this project is included.


Despre Arhitectura Kolumba Museum by Peter Zumthor

Its new home, built from 2003-07, was designed by Peter Zumthor and inaugurated by Joachim Meisner. The site was originally occupied by the romanesque Church of St. Kolumba, which was destroyed in World War II and replaced in 1950 by a Gottfried Böhm chapel nicknamed the "Madonna of the Ruins". [1] [2] [3]


Kolumba Museum, by Peter Zumthor Peter zumthor, Architecture, Art and architecture

As a „living museum" Kolumba enquires about the freedom of the individual in an exchange between history and the present day, at the intersection of belief and knowledge, and defends existential values by challenging them through art. The new building designed by Peter Zumthor transfers the sum of the existing fragments into one complete.


West Art Meisterwerke Peter Zumthor Kolumba, Köln WDR

Peter Zumthor' s quiet, technically pristine, and beautifully detailed work has long been an inspiration for architects. His Kolumba Museum, located in Cologne, Germany, a city that was.

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