To be honest, I didn't at first realise that it's ramps in the background, I first thought they are some sort of roof-holding girders. Had I realised, indeed the identification would have been instant.

Those ramps were a failed idea. No later high-speed line station [this one is on one of the first two lines in Germany, Würzburg-Hannover] took up this design. And the roof form was ideal for allowing through and enhancing winds, earling the station the funny Chinese-sounding nickname Palast der tausend Winde = Palace of the thousand winds, which I alluded to above. Gioele, have you experienced those winds?

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}