lines of the rmcc.
without a lot of words this post will conclude the month of august with a few pictures i took on various city walks. so... this is basically a fade-out of the month post until i dive into september, the month that things truly started to bring a new reality, albeit one that's now happened in a different dimension ( in my head ).
the rmcc overpass that links the north and south hall.
the new rhein-main congress center ( rmcc ) was opened last year in april and while i had checked it out by then a few times, i still hadn't made a lot of photos yet. there's probably still a lot of perspectives i didn't catch yet, but that's okay, because you know, it's nice to let buildings keep some of their secrets for a while and slowly discovering them over time. it would feel sucked dry pretty soon, i think, if you tried to take stock of every single detail all at once, am i right?
the beautiful portico of the entrance area.
you can't deny the elegance of these huge window facades, can you? the openness and transparence of the building is truly what makes the construction so enticing.
on the other side, vis-a-vis, you can marvel at the museum wiesbaden, which was also renovated from 2017 to 2018 ( and originally built 1913-15 by theodor fischer ). it houses an art and a natural history museum, and i have to admit that i only have been inside once, and didn't really like it. this year i will probably give it a second go, though, as they recently got an art nouveau donation and are putting up a whole exhibition about it. maybe the museum can then finally redeem itself and its sort of snob appeal and change my mind into a lover of the museum? i will report... eventually.
back to the rmcc again. the fountains that should be up front the building were not functioning this time around. a little bit sad, considering that it was still summer and fountains in wiesbaden city are a must! it might've been due to water shortage, though, it had been a very dry summer after all.
one look up above reveals new perspectives of the sky.
this shop was formerly a delikatessen shop, but now is an institutional restaurant with traditional german cuisine. i absolutely love the old outdoor advertising!
one of the many balustrades inside the nerotalanlagen ( nerotal park ). the little stream is called schwarzbach ( black stream ), which is actually not too far away from the truth. it's not dirty or anything, just appears very dark because it is framed by a lot of growth and plants that overshadow it.
a snug place next to a stone bridge over the schwarzbach. i sat here for a while and read a few lines in a book ( gasp! because it's gotten rare for me to read a book ).
town houses like these are very common in the city! this is a wilhelm rehbold building from 1905.
from time to time i stumble upon relicts of the 50ies/60ies. i think these are bicycle racks, but i could be mistaken. could also just be something to do with being a decorating element. or some sort of partition things for parking lots.
houses of wilhelminenstraße, all by the aformentioned architect rehbold. i don't have any info on this dude, but he seemed to have built a lot of these town houses back in the day. seemed to have a knack for neo-classicist design.
the awesome facade and gable of the tattersall. the tattersall is a venue for all kinds of cultural happenings. it's situated in the bergkirchenviertel ( a district that surrounds the bergkirche - a church ). it was built in 1905 as a horse accommodation building by albert wolff.
back to the constructions of the congress center, this time in the early evening light in front of the southern hall. this is at the corner of rheinstraße and friedrich-ebert-allee. the turkish travertine facing of the columns are such a nice detail to the whole building.
a little shift goes a long way.
here are the fountains WITH water. i shot these evening pictures on a different day, i do believe it was on a movie night with a certain someone - the first of many movie nights. it was just a short little walk around the block. the fountains create such a nice mirror effect, and i like that detail a lot.
the marktkirche in its evening glory. the market church was built from 1853 to 1863 by carl boos. it's really beautiful piece of neo-gothic brickstone architecture, and heavily inspired by the friedrichswerder church in berlin ( by famous karl friedrich schinkel ). a true gem of the inner city! it's also the tallest building of wiesbaden, with 88 meter in height - which is not very tall, mind you, especially compared to nearby frankfurt and other global cities ;P. but it's at least a very beautiful building and we should probably be pretty content with our highest building nonetheless :)
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