Richard Serra, “The Drowned and the Saved” (1992/1997), in the former sacristy of St. Kolumba Church (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) COLOGNE — There is a sameness that plagues museums ...
His award-winning designs include the Therme in Vals, the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Kolumba art museum in Cologne. Peter Zumthor is the first foreign architect to be honored by the Association of ...
Architectural Record: Kolumba, Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, by Atelier Peter Zumthor
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 ...
Kolumba, Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, by Atelier Peter Zumthor
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 ...
With its culturally and historically rich context, the city of Cologne, also called Köln by its locals, is considered one of the most important centers in West Germany. Nestled on the banks of the ...
A site steeped in history, it bears witness to 2000 years of architectural history, from the Roman era to post-war modernism. The parish church St. Kolumba was reduced to ruins in 1945. Adjacent to it ...
German Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne holds up a copy of an edict addressed to Cologne by the Roman Emperor Constantine from the year 321 — the oldest written evidence of Jewish life north of ...