Essay: Black Buildings

 - Anneke Bokern

For centuries, tar has been used to weather protect wooden and brick buildings. Today black-coloured buildings in a wide variety of materials can be found in all sorts of places. But not every black is the same.

Essay: Black Buildings
Peter Zumthor’s black-painted Allmannajuvet Zinc Mine Museum in Sauda, Norway (2016) is almost invisible in the landscape. © Fredrik Fløgstad / Statens vegvesen