Berlin Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
Liebeskind’s design for a new extension to the Berlin Jewish Museum was the winner of a 1989 competition and was the first of his designs to be built. Its zigzagging shape was intended to evoke the twists and turns of German Jewish history, while it reminds some people of a broken Star of David. The building attracted immediate attention in its unique style, and some thirty-five thousand people visited it before the exhibition was even mounted.
Credits
© Günter Schneider, [email protected]. Image courtesy of Studio Libeskind,
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 10.
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