Depending on whether you see the tunnel from the canal or walk or drive over it on the built-up bridge, this structure has two names: Broad Street Tunnel or Black Sabbath Bridge. This bridge was recently named in honor of … read more or write a comment …
Today it is a popular restaurant on the edge of Birmingham’s entertainment district. It was probably originally built as a warehouse on the famous Gas Street Basin, the main canal in Birmingham city center. I was once again traveling on … read more or write a comment …
I don’t know what the architect had in mind when he designed the Alster swimming pool. Formally, it says that the roof is made of two hyperbolic paraboloid shells. But from this perspective, I see a butterfly swimmer (some people … read more or write a comment …
The Alster Swimming Pool in Hamburg was built in 1968 and has a striking supporting structure consisting of two hyperbolic paraboloid shells. It was renovated between 2020 and 2023, with the striking roof being retained. Since the Alster swimming pool … read more or write a comment …
The view across the Hansa Port to the 50s sheds can almost be called classic. There at the Bremen quay, the four-masted barque Peking is moored in front of the old cargo sheds. From my line of sight in front … read more or write a comment …
At the blue hour, the setting sun still illuminated the clouds in the west and so the facade of the Elbphilharmonie glowed in the background. At the same time, the illumination of the masts of the Rickmer Rickmers there provided … read more or write a comment …
What that already blue hour? The sun had disappeared below the horizon, the clouds above me and their reflection in the fjord were dark blue to purple. A few small, low-hanging rain clouds drifted through the scene and the horizon … read more or write a comment …
The Elbphilharmonie has been open for almost 4 years and the construction cranes on the building have not been seen for much longer, yet it is almost impossible to find a viewpoint of the Elbphilharmonie without construction cranes. Nevertheless, I … read more or write a comment …
The white swan of the South Atlantic and in the background the musical theatres at the Elbe river. I like to go to this light mood in Hamburg when shortly after sunset the twilight sets in and the sky turns … read more or write a comment …
Before I went into the night on the day of departure and thus on the way to the ferry to Bodø, I enjoyed the long blue hour on the Lofoten Islands once again. In Reine I had a little snack … read more or write a comment …
Hennigsvær, the fishing village on the Vestfjord. A football field surrounded by stockfish racks and two elongated islands with the fishing harbor in the middle. Today, many of the former storehouses and workshops have been converted into hotels and holiday … read more or write a comment …
The last day of classes on the Lofoten Islands. We wanted to make an excursion to one of the beaches together, but for once we wanted to leave much later. So I suddenly had 1 hour time before we had … read more or write a comment …