... a two-hour walk along the Rhine and up to the 'modern' part of Düsseldorf, with totally frost-bitten fingers was worth it.
This literally outstanding, curvy building, known as Zollhaus, is work of a famous Canadian-American architect, Frank Gehry who also designed the Jay Pitzker Pavillion in Chicago, the Dancing House in Prague and other really impressive examples of desconstructivism.
A curious thing about him is that he had to reach a really mature age to get recognized. After many years of regular undistinguished architectural career, he was finally noticed when designed his own bird-nesting-box-style house in California, something really out of the ordinary for that time. Soon after that his career rocketed up converting him in one of the most significant figures in the modern architecture and in a Pitziker Prize laureate.
Life is full of twists'n'turns :)
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