Museum of Applied Arts – Cologne

Museum-of-Applied-Arts – Cologne
This staircase is located on the first floor of the building and leads from there to the second floor.
This museum was built between 1953 and 1957 by the Cologne architect Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961) in collaboration with Josef Bernard (1902–1959). For its new use, it was subtly adapted to the new exhibition requirements by the Cologne architect Walter von Lom.
After its inauguration, the new museum was criticized for its factory-like austerity. The large hall was considered a waste of space. In retrospect, however, the building was praised as a successful synthesis of the existing structure and the newly created. The architecture was seen as "a third way," mediating between an exaggerated, grand architectural gesture of modernism and a resigned restoration of the past. In 1967, the building was awarded the Cologne Architecture Prize.
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