Neuer Zollhof
Three leaning, curving towers in white render, mirror-like steel and red brick beside the harbour.
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This guide to Frank Gehry's Neuer Zollhof in Düsseldorf's Media Harbour asks how you design, and calculate, three towers with almost no straight lines. It follows the borrowed technology behind the curves in the late nineteen-nineties, and what all that freedom means for the people living and working inside. Best heard facing the stainless steel tower in the middle, where the neighbours show up in its skin.
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