Sanaa at Zollverein

from fog to sunshine: i spend my free day at Zeche Zollverein, World cultural heritage. I just must say that i am a "child of the Ruhrpott", enjoying the coal mines, industrial sculptures transefered now into museums, offices, restaurants. Imagening all the dust, sweat and hard labour from former times, while it is now a calm, wonderful place to stroll around. especially in sunshine.

The recent addition to the area, and one reason for my trip, is the new Zollverein school of design, which was designed by japanese architecture duo SANAA. From the distance it looked unfitting, but coming closer it does suddendly match with the strict and minimal lines of zollverein. You start to feel like exploring the building, with lots of rough concrete and a big open forum space. and especially the distributed arranged windows, which looks from the inside just like a gallery full of photographs.