KÖ Galerie
Upscale shopping arcade of marble streets meeting under a soaring atrium, opened in the mid-eighties.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the KÖ Galerie on Düsseldorf's Königsallee follows Walter Brune, the Bremen-born architect who designed and developed the building in the mid-nineteen-eighties. It reaches back to the giant out-of-town mall he proposed in the Ruhr in nineteen seventy, and to what he came to believe such places did to city centres. Best heard standing in the atrium where the four covered streets meet.
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