Herford buildings

 When you travel in Europe you will see that each country you pass has its own way of building houses. These are typical German half-timbered houses. We have them too in the south part of our country near the border with Germany

I like such coloured houses, must be great to live in the stock with the oriel window.

Look at this beautiful facade with gold above. I only don't know what the english telephone kiosk had to do here.

Herford (Weekend Reflections #96)

On our way to the museum we passed this big silver ball.

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MARTa Herford ( 2)

We went for a exhibition about the engineer, futurist and designer "Richard Buckmister Fuller"  (1895-1983). My husband was inspired by him when he studied architecture. It was not allowed to make photo's at the exhibition but in other parts of the building it was. This is an example of one of his ideas in the hall. If you want to know more about him and his work read here.

This is a view of the ceiling. We met somebody who works in the museum and she mentioned the problems with leaks by rainwater. I can imagine with such a complicated building. 

We had lunch in the futuristic cafe. Where the lady sits above right was not accessible for visitors but I think a room for meetings.

About the (strange) name of the museum, it is not someone called "Marta" but it means M=Mobel/Furniture, ART=art, a= ambience.

MARTa Herford

I was a couple of days in Herford Germany to visit this museum, called "MARTa Herford". It looks like it has fallen apart but it is in 2005 designed by the famous  Canadian/American architect Frank Gehry, who has made more of these special buildings, a.o. in Bilbao Spain.

It was very difficult to make a good photo of it because you can't get around, but I tried my best.

At this photo-page you can see better photo's from above for instance.
Tomorrow I tell you more about it.