On the way to work

Cologne, Brusseler Str. Thursday 2009.10.29_50

Cologne, the Dom, Thursday 2009.10.29_03

Cologne_Thursday 2009.10.29_04

Cologne, Hohenzollern bridge, Thursday 2009.10.29_55

Cologne, from the Hohenzollern bridge, Thursday 2009.10.29_16

Cologne, Hohenzollern bridge, Thursday 2009.10.29_07

Cologne, Deutz, trees_2009.10.29_55

Hohenzoller-Brücke (German for: Hohenzollern bridge)
GoogleMaps link
Hohenzoller-Brücke link to ”bing”

 

the Zoo

Cologne zoo, Monday 13.07.2009 (picture from H.G.)

I tuck the picture from this blog-post:  Junior’s First Visit to the Zoo

CSD Cologne 2009

Christopher Street Day in Cologne (July 5, 2009) 243

Christopher Street Day in Cologne (July 5, 2009) 122

Christopher Street Day in Cologne (July 5, 2009) 599

Christopher Street Day in Cologne.  (Gay Pride Day)

Pictures from yesterday evening (Sunday July 5, 2009). No time to post the others. You can see a few more in this link in facebook.

Stadtwald park in Cologne

Stadtwald park in Cologne

Stadtwald park in Cologne

Stadtwald park in Cologne

Stadtwald park in Cologne

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Stroll in the Stadtwald park in Cologne at Friday May 1, 2009. This park is about 5 minutes Bus drive from the centre. If you want to see some more pictures go to the Picasa album Stadwald in Cologne

The chicken

Lindenstr. & Roonstr. Thusday 19. Febr. 2009 (Karneval in Cologne)

There is a lot going on these days on my window. This chicken on the street reminds me the chicken Fight in “Family Guy”

One year after

Cologne, Luetzowstr 2008.11.05

One year after and the next moving is very close. Probably one block further but in a flat with the double surface.

Compare the pictures in these posts:

• Κολωνία και όχι πια οδός Κολωνίας November 4, 2007
• Luetzowstrasse 37 November 4, 2007
• Το χρώμα της πόλης και το χρώμα τ’ ουρανού November 8, 2007
• Unbelievable (weather) April 6, 2008
• Eingefangen (trapped) April 13, 2008
• Redressing April 20, 2008
• Window tree April 27, 2008

The window-tree there will be high!

Cologne, Lindenstr 2008.11.08

"The fifties"

Cologne Saturday, March 1, 2008
This picture is taken on a stroll in the city from the day of this post: Photographical memo

The architect would say fascinated: “the fifties!”
I am not sure if this or other typical “fifties fascinations” are really plant or built in the fifties. Maybe many of them came from the fifties and the sixties. You can find examples less or more often, in many countries. It is something that makes you imagine that, these kind of buildings are a product of a short time of beauty after the Second World War and before the mass-market-media era. Maybe we see in a subconsciously manner some appearance of the beauty from the visionary way of thinking on the twenties, which unfortunately capped from two big wars and the fascism. This optimistic view passed thru to the new generations in the sixties and the early seventies. But, it’s capped again. Some buildings remain and the Swiss bank can buy their beauty.

Location on Google Maps >>

Cologne Saturday, March 1, 2008
This picture is taken on a stroll in the city from the day of this post: Photographical memo

Cologne Saturday, March 1, 2008
This picture is taken on a stroll in the city from the day of this post: Photographical memo

Catholic Easter in the Cologne Cathedral

Cologne Cathedral, Catholic Easter-Sunday March 24, 2008

Cologne Cathedral, Catholic Easter-Sunday March 24, 2008

Cologne Cathedral, Catholic Easter-Sunday March 24, 2008

Cologne Cathedral, Catholic Easter-Sunday March 24, 2008

I was there with junior in the sling. He was quiet because the most of the time he was sleeping.

The rays of the Sunlight in these pictures are passing through the glass pane on the window which is designed from the artist Gerhard Richter for the Cologne Cathedral. Gerhard Richter is considered by some critics as one of the most important European artists and is also one of the world’s most expensive, with his paintings often selling for several million dollars apiece.

The Bishop, Joachim Kardinal Meisner was also there. Another time I have to devote a post to some of his choices for architecture and art.

Some short videos from the same occasion:

Cologne Dom Easter 23.3.2008 (2)
Cologne Dom Easter 23.3.2008 (5)
Cologne Dom Easter 23.3.2008 (4)

Cologne in piece

Cologne Friday April 18, 2008
From an advertising

Consideration

Cologne, Thursday April 15, 2008

This view is from the windows of the Greek consulate in Cologne. What a coincidence!

Consideration means in German „die Gegenleistung“ but the meaning of this word in combination with this picture, is something that the architects and friends from Greece understand much better then anyone else: «αντιπαροχή»

Cologne, Sunday April 20, 2008

The same buildings taken from the ground during a Sunday stroll. Plus: GoogleMaps of this occasion in the centre of Cologne >>