Reports: A Hundred Days at the “Zollverein” – Architecture and Design at Europe’s Most Attractive Coal Mine

Coal was mined and processed at the “Zoll-verein” for 136 years, down to its closure in 1986. With the construction of the Zollverein School and the opening of the design and architectural exhibition “Entry”, a major part of a long restructuring process has come to a end. Pit XII with its tower, built by Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer between...