Today the Neumarkt is characterized by two shopping malls, namely the Neumarkt-Galerie (on picture) and the Neumarkt-Passage. It was opened in October 1998 (construction started in July 1997, construction costs 280 million DM) and has 37000 m² of retail space. Its most important hallmarks is the "Dropped Cone" on the roof from 2001, a work of art more than ten meters high in the form of an inverted ice cream cone by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Its top is supposed to remind of the church towers in Cologne. (previous | next | back to album | 2020:09:25 18:06:04 | 11% of an album)