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Kultur und Kongresszentrum
With striking angles and clean lines, Parisian architect Jean Nouvel’s waterfront Kultur und Kongresszentrum is a post-modern marvel in an otherwise historic city. But don’t think a pretty face implies a superficial soul: the main concert hall’s acoustics are as close to perfect as humankind has ever known, according to many musicians and conductors who have performed here. The trick is that the tall, narrow concert hall, partly built below the lake’s surface, is surrounded by a reverberation chamber and has an adjustable suspended ceiling, all creating a bubble of silence.
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Löwendenkmal
Weird and wondrous Victorian attractions lure nostalgia buffs north of the Old Town. By far the most touching is the Löwendenkmal. Lukas Ahorn carved this 10m-long sculpture of a dying lion into the rock face in 1820 to commemorate Swiss soldiers who died defending King Louis XVI during the French Revolution. Mark Twain once called it the ‘saddest and most moving piece of rock in the world’. For Narnia fans, it often evokes Aslan at the stone table.
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Kunstmuseum
The permanent collection in Kunstmuseum is pretty uninspiring, but keep an eye out for temporary exhibitions such as the recent retrospective of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s enigmatic photography.
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