Bruder Klaus revisited

I visited the Bruder Klaus Kapelle a few years ago and was totally blown away by this tiny little chapel in the middle of the Eifel countryside. Last week I went back and found it to be just striking as it was the first time. It doesn't look much from the outside but the inside is amazing and it's this contrast that makes the Bruder Klaus Kapelle so special. Swiss architect Peter Zumthor created the structure by building a kind of teepee out of tree trunks. Then he covered them with layers of concrete on the outside creating a beige coloured block. He placed steel tubes at various intervals through the concrete and then he burnt the wood on the inside and removed it, creating ridged interior walls that slope upwards leaving a gap in the roof. At the end of each steal tube he placed a glass ball so now when you walk through the triangular shaped door into the tear drop shaped space you look up to open sky frame by rough ribbed walls dotted with globes of light. Sun streams down through the hole in the roof in the summer and snows collects on the floor in winter. It's quite breathtaking. You can find out more here Bruder-Klaus-Feldkapelle .I strongly suggest you visit if you are ever in the Eifel.