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