WCMT Travel Fellowship: Germany
Germany
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Duisburg Nord – Landscahftspark
A former industrial site turned into a public landscaped park. Latz & Partner
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Museum of Inland Shipping, Duisburg, Germany
A former swimming baths turned into a museum with full size ships / boats. Architektur Fabrik Aachen
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Public Park on Harbour Island, Saarbrucken, Germany
A former destroyed and spilled coal port is the centre of an ecological renewal programme. Latz & Partner
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Volklingen Iron Works, Saarbrucken, Germany
Now a world heritage site and industrial complex of buildings, and chimneys; reinvented into a tourist attraction. Unknown
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Gasometer, Oberhausen, Germany
A former gasometer as an industrial monument into an exhibition hall and viewing platform. Unknown
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Zollverin World Heritage Site, Essen, Germany
A former coal manufacturing industrial site into a series of visitors facilities and opened up to the public to maintain its history. OMA & others
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Tetrahedron, Bottrop-Batenbrock, Germany
A 80m coal slag heap with a steel tetrahedron structure of 50m high to gain views across the landscapes and Ruhr industrial countryside. Professor Wolfgang Christ and Klaus Bollinger
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Ruhr Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
A former coal washing plant into a museum as a part of the Ruhr Industrial area. H G Merz
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Dresden Museum of Military History, Dresden, Germany
An extension to a historic building to form new exhibition spaces in an enigmatic manner. Daniel Libeskind
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Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruck, Germany & Extension to Felix Nussbaum Haus
A museum dedicated to a jewish artist persecuted during WW2 extended in an enigmatic fashion. Daniel Libeskind
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Jewish Museum, Berlin & Glass Courtyard & Education centre, Berlin, Germany
A reminder for the atrocities undertaken during WW2. Extended from a classical existing building in Berlin with 2 new additions. Daniel Libeskind
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Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Germany
A former gothic parish church ruins formed into a new art museum in a sympathetic and sensitive design. Peter Zumthor
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Kuppersmulhe Museum Grothe Collection, Duisberg
A former mill building converted into a museum. Herzog & De Meuron
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Wunderland, Kalkar
An amusement park inhabiting a former nuclear power plant in Western region of Germany. Unknown
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Langan Foundation, Raketenstation 1, D-41472 Neuss & Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss
A former missile station on Hombroich Island that has been changed into an art foundation. Tadao Ando & Alvaro Siza (Pavilion)
Other buildings to visit at cities above in Germany:
- Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
- New Stuttgart City Library, Stuttgart – Eun Young Yi
- Neue Stattsgalerie, Stuttgart – James Stirling
- Visitors centre & Park Kalkriese, Osnabruck – Gigon Guyer
- Archaelogical museum & Park Kalkriese, Osnabruck – Gigon Guyer
