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From this week\u2019s signandsight, insightful piece on the latest addition to one of my favorite Berlin sites, the museum island. You can read the full article\u00a0here<\/a>:<\/p>\n The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV wanted to create a \u201csanctuary for art and science\u201d on the Spree Island north of Schinkel\u2019s museum. Architect\u00a0Friedrich August St\u00fcler<\/a>, chosen to execute the monarch\u2019s demands after Schinkel\u2019s premature death in 1841, saw the\u00a0Neues Museum<\/a> \u2013 which he designed and opened in 1855 \u2013 as \u201ca focal point for the\u00a0most elevated intellectual interests<\/strong> of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n West facade Neues Museum, View from the Schlossbr\u00fccke \u00a9 Stiftung Preu\u00dfischer Kulturbesitz David Chipperfield Architects, photographer: Ute Zscharnt<\/span><\/p>\n So the aims for the Museum Island were not exactly set low. And yet the project existed in completed form for only a short time: for the nine years between the opening of the\u00a0Pergamon Museum<\/a> in\u00a01930<\/strong> and the closing of all museums with the onset of war in\u00a01939<\/strong>. The Neues Museum, which sustained more damage from bombs and artillery than any of the other buildings on the island, never reopened.<\/p>\n But now that\u2019s about to change. On 5 March, the museum, reconstructed according to the plans of London architect\u00a0David Chipperfield<\/a>, will be handed over to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which will then install the artwork to be exhibited. Before the installation, the public will have three days to view the building itself. It is, after the brilliant restoration of the\u00a0Alte Nationalgalerie<\/a> and the\u00a0Bode Museum<\/a>, the third extensive renovation on the island \u2013 and the first to resurrect a building that had utterly fallen out of consciousness.<\/p>\n Staircase Hall circa 1985 \u00a9 SMB \/ Zentralarchiv<\/span><\/p>\n The 233 million euro endeavour will be met with a powerful response \u2013 because, in contrast to the restoration of the other two island museums, the Neues Museum is not bound to an intact prewar history. On the contrary:\u00a0Naked and bare<\/strong>, it shows what the war did to it. A colossal stairway deprived of the fresco decor that had been completely burned away; domes without decoration, walls devoid of smooth plaster. That, at any rate, is how the detractors of Chepperfield\u2019s concept will see it, people who see nothing other than \u201cruin nostalgia<\/strong>\u201d in the carefully preserved traces of history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From this week\u2019s signandsight, insightful piece on the latest addition to one of my favorite Berlin sites, the museum island. You can read the full article\u00a0here: David Chipperfield has recovered astonishingly diverse vestiges of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,186,273,544,1739],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-berlin","tag-david-chipperfield","tag-museum-insel","tag-signandsight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
David Chipperfield has recovered astonishingly diverse vestiges of history in Berlin\u2019s Neues Museum. By Bernhard Schulz<\/h3>\n
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