The Studio 54 Building on Rue de la Fontaine (Brunnenstrasse)

... I just happened to stroll along Rue de la Fontaine (Brunnenstrasse) with Luc in tow, and suddenly, a gate opened and a man on a bike casually cycled out of it ...

...as I am a nosy somebody that goes to any opening, even that of a gate (LOL), I just walked right into the building the guy came out of. And what did I find ... ?

A veritable homage to NYC's 'Studio 54', of all things!!! The entire entrance of the (quite fancy looking) building is plastered in photos of 'Studio 54'. Apparently, the photos are blown-ups of originals that belong to the building's owners ...

The name of the building is actually 'Studio 183', for that's the address (Rue de la Fontaine/ Brunnenstasse 183), and you should see the building's front!!! (It appears, there is going to be a shop - what will they sell? Vinyl? Drugs? Vintage couture? The building's name and appearance surely are a promise the future shop must live up to!)!

Unfortunately, work is still being done to the building's front, so a lot of it is covered by scaffolding, otherwise I'd have taken a picture of it,too ...

What you see on the photo below, are the garden houses, meaning you enter the building through the entrance hall depicted on the previous photos, then you reach a courtyard with several garden houses.

... Tom Jones' adage adorns one of the walls a,long the entrance ... but I think the lyrics to Amanda Lear's disco anthem, "Fashion Pack", would have been a lot more appropriate still:

" It was night and suddenly I felt like dancing, 

 so I took a cab to show me to the disco scene. 

 He said: o.k., you wanna see those crazy people, 

hustling at the door to get into Studio 54 ... "

... Jerry Hall, Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Truman Capote, Paloma Picasso (from left to right) ... those were the days, eh!!!

Somewhat incongruously, the architects combined those photo originals from the 1970s with lamps and lettering reminiscent of the 1930s. Bizarrely enough, though, it works ...

... the whole thing is just so wacky!

 More of it is to follow once the building's front is completed!