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KOLUMBA ART MUSEUM IN COLOGNE by PETER ZUMTHOR Arc Street Journal

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


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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.


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The Kolumba Museum by Peter Zumthor is well known, though perhaps less so than his baths in Vals, Switzerland. Located in the middle of Cologne's bombed out old city, the museum is built upon layers of ruins, including those of the romanesque church of St. Kolumba, destroyed in World War II. Formerly called the Diözesanmuseum when it was.


Kolumba Museum Peter Zumthor & Partner Archello

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.


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

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.


KOLUMBA ART MUSEUM IN COLOGNE by PETER ZUMTHOR Arc Street Journal

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.


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danish photographer rasmus hjortshøj has shared new images of peter zumthor's kolumba museum in the german city of cologne.


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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.


Peter Zumthor, Museo kolumba TECNNE

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.


peter zumthor's kolumba museum photographed by rasmus hjortshøj

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.


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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.


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

Peter Zumthor Kolumba Museum 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.


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

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]


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Kolumba Museum / Peter Zumthor Curated by ArchDaily Share Museum • Köln, Germany Architects: Peter Zumthor Year: 2007 Photographs: Jose Fernando Vazquez Manufacturers: HESS TIMBER.


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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.

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