The museum Folkwang, founded in Hagen by Karl Ernst Osthaus in 1902, was the first museum of contemporary art in Europe. The most significant works were transferred from Hagen to Essen in 1922, from which point on, aside from a period when the Nation
The Zollverein mine was closed in 1986 and had become since then a sanctuary of industrial architecture, which Unesco declared a World Heritage Site in 2001. OMA was hired to develop the master plan to give the complex a contemporary use. The largest
This archive in Essen addresses two requirements. On the one hand, it had to respect and enhance the preexisting construction, raised in the year 1906. On the other hand, it was to enlarge the existing building with an archive facility that would be
Construidas en los años treinta, las minas de Zollverein fueron el complejo minero más grande y bello de Europa. Después de su clausura en 1986, se convirtieron en un santuario de la arquitectura industrial, declarado Patrimonio de la Humanidad por l
Located in the center of the Ruhr area, the city of Essen prospered thanks to the coalmining industry, though the exhaustion of this mineral plunged the existing factories into a gradual process of decay. In 1988, Zeche Zollverein, a site in the nort
