Strange Architecture

This is an apartment building that won an award for it's strange design. The architect is apparently quite famous but I can't recall the name.













We took a small cruise on the Rhine and I went up on deck to take some pictures of the old buildings. The 3rd building from the right is probably circa 1960's whereas the rest are all much, much older. The place of the newer building was likely to replace a building destroyed during the war. I often saw evidence of this everywhere we went in Germany.






Here I am posing by the statue of the Prince. Yes, that is real gold I am touching. I was going to scrape some of it off but I was reassured by my brother that it would not net me very much in dollars. I'm not sure if I believe him....