Peter Zumthor - Kolumba Museum - Koln, Germany.
As much as I’ve lusted over this building, there were a few wee flaws:
1 - Picture rails were absent, so pictures had to be screwed directly into the finished plaster walls leaving unsightly marks when they were removed;
2 - That’s pretty much it. Every type of room or gallery you could wish for was included: tall, small, dark, light, narrow, long, secluded, wide open and BEST OF ALL - this building actually took you on a journey. From the entrance to the top-most tall gallery space the building leads you uncompromisingly through all the galleries in an amazingly simple, yet most likely unrealised, route up and through the building.
This is undoubtedly a must see building.
All images taken by Andrew Strachan.
