Article: Diocesan dialogue: Peter Zumthor orchestrates an angelic conversation between old and new.

Cologne must have one of the highest ratios of museums to population of any city in the world. From the brilliant Romisch-Germanisches museum (which celebrates the life of the colony founded by emperor Claudius) to the museum of chocolate (which celebrates elegant gluttony), from the collection devoted to German sport to the one about eau de Cologne, there can scarcely be an aspect of human culture not examined. The latest, the Diocesan, displays the magnificent art collections Germany's richest bishopric has built up over 1000 years.

Peter Zumthor won the competition for the new building in 1997. He was faced with a delicate and complex site, the ruins of a ...

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