Miniatures and Travel almanac of Norman Lim. Norman has travelled to 119 cities and 42 countries. Norman has been making models since 1973, this blog also serves to connect people sharing the same passions as the writer.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Weird buildings of Dusseldorf
Dusseldolf, a city of weird mix of architecture, Never really got to post these pictures.
It is historic and yet it has its very industrial and weird face of fun. enjoy the pics
This is the church in the middle of the town square, according to my GPS system on the TOM TOM Go, its near the Rathaus, which is normally the town city hall.
This street party is for World Cup fever as this dates back to 2006! only 200 yards from the Church building where I took the above picture. Here we can buy swine hexan, all sorts of bread and sausages plus of course, lots of beer.
Then I remembered this place where a lot has been written about its funny looking buildings, Curve here, slope there.....an architectural showcase. Finally I got some one on the ferry while we are crossing the Rhine to tell us that its in Hammer Strasse. After some negotiating, we found this river bank, then the heavens opened up! Not after I took like 40 pictures! This one is a spiral building, an office block next to the bank, it is one of two identical buildings, one has a white finish while the next one is Chrome mirror finished.
Here we see the CHROMED mirror finished of polished stainless steel facade.
Then, there is this building with all the climbers outside it across the river. It sits next to a building that has a section jutting out and next to a dwarf which has a brick red unit next to it that has a weird triangular feature jutting out on the 4th floor on the river bank side.
The river bank taken from the glass bridge. Here we see WW2 type loaders on the banks and old warehouses amongst phenomenal modern architecture. The green building as restaurants in it.
This is also a strange building, it integrated the old building into the ultra modern office block, making it unique.
See, its pouring cats and dogs, but, heh..heh... my Touareg is park below this building which has a multi storey underground car park.
We can see the weird grey and glass building in the background!
Thoroughly enjoyed this escapade.