Rhine Tower
Slender concrete telecom tower with a revolving restaurant and a giant light clock on its shaft.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the Rhine Tower in Düsseldorf follows Horst Baumann, a metallurgist turned light artist, and an idea he picked up in the mid nineteen seventies about how time could be written in light. It takes in a failed first attempt on a bridge along the river and the architect Harald Deilmann, whose plans for the tower crossed Baumann's desk. Stand where you can see the whole shaft, ideally after dark.
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