The Rhine Tower -- looking up	Built in 1998, the Stadttor - or City Gate - is perhaps Dusseldorf's finest example of contemporary architecture. Towering 80 meters over the harbour and media district, the glass building houses numerous offices, media centres and lawyers' practices.

The huge, round steel columns of the Stadttour have been intentionally left visible, and the design has won several awards.	The Landtag - or State Parliament of North Rhine Westphalia - is one of the city's most recognisable landmarks. Built in 1988, the yellow sandstone and reddish-brown colour of the building stands out from the rest of the cityscape, as does its distinctive round shape, which is designed to symbolise democracy, transparency and politics for the people.

City view from Rhein Tower	Frank O'Gehry buildings -- these are offices and are of very strange design.

More cityscape	The Rhine river runs just beneth the Tower. Shipping is quite active on the Rhine which stretches all the way from the North Sea near Rotterdam, Holland into Switzerland some 820 miles. Along the way it links to the Danube which passes through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and the Ukraine at the Black Sea.

Wilhelm-Marx-Hause which at one time was the tallest skyscraper in Dusseldorf.	The Tritonenbrunnen fountain located on the Konigsallee (King's Alley) famous shopping boulevard (high class) filled with arcades and malls.

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