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Jewish
Museum - Linderstrasse,
Berlin, Germany
Architect
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Daniel Libeskind
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Date Built
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2001
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Location
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Linderstrasse |
Description
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The
Jewish Museum in Berlin occupies two
buildings. Entrance for visitors is
through the baroque Kollegienhaus on
Lindenstrasse (the cream coloured building with
the red roof seen on the left in the centre of
the image below). Libeskind's new building
is beside it.
Daniel Libeskind explains that once inside the
old building you experience,
"a dramatic entry Void by a stair,
which descends under the existing building
foundations, crisscrosses underground, and
materializes itself as an independent building
on the outside. The existing building is tied
to the extension underground, preserving the
contradictory autonomy of both the old
building and the new building on the surface,
while binding the two together in the depth of
time and space. The descent leads to
three underground axial routes, each of which
tells a different story. ... The first, and
longest, traces a path leading to the Stair of
Continuity, then up to and through the
exhibition spaces of the museum, emphasizing
the continuum of history. The second leads out
of the building and into the Garden of Exile
and Emigration, remembering those who were
forced to leave Berlin. The third leads to a
dead end — the Holocaust Void."
Leibskind's building is clad in
zinc, which will turn a bluish shade over time,
and cut into by a pattern of irregular shaped
windows.
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