Neues Museum By David Chipperfield Architects And Julian Harrap
By Jeffrey Hyatt
Over at Architectural Record, Suzanne Stephens has a terrific write-up about the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany – noting that, “scores of architects and consultants have labored on the $255 million project since 1997, when Chipperfield won the commission, after a drawn-out competition process that began in 1993.” Stephens adds that the result is a beautiful design that “brings to the foreground fragile traces of history in the palimpsest of its walls, ceilings, floors, and columns.”
In working with the 220,660-square-foot palatial block, the project focus was to re-complete the original volume, and encompassed the repair and restoration of the parts that remained after the destruction of the Second World War. The original sequence of rooms was restored with new building sections that create continuity with the existing structure. [via Architectural Record]
