Tour 2. Brave New Media-World (7 Km): What The...

Düsseldorf, Germany

Tour 2. Brave new media-world (7 km): what the glittering suburb "La Defence" means for Paris that is the media-harbour for Duesseldorf; a fair of modernistic pilot architecture. But in spite of all the glamour and glitter there is corporal defect: the lack of payable housing accommodation for people like you and me. And in this way the whole has the charm of a glittering iceberg. Where are we running to? "The devil knows," an inner voice is answering, "simply straight forward on the Hammer Strasse passing the new Zollhof". Formerly this was a terrain where commodities could be stored tax-free. Today it is an art and media centre and the crooked Gehry-Bauten produces the impression of a kubistic sculpture. We continue our tour on the Hammer Strasse and reach the Multiplex cinema. Let's dive through a tunnel into another world and enter the old village of Hamm, the standing-place of conservative vegetable farmers. At the border of that village we follow the railway line and reach the Rhine. Now we move back to the harbour in a wide lap, between gulf place to the left and power station to the right. In the end we cross the harbour mouth on an elegant spanning bridge, which rewards us with an imposing outlook on the new and the old Duesseldorf.