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Article: Neues Museum: David Chipperfield Architects.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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NEUES MUSEUM
LOCATION
BERLIN, GERMANY
ARCHITECT
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD ARCHITECTS
There's an obvious attraction to David Chipperfield's Neues Museum. At a time when we have been sated with the glittering object, the spectacular form, the rhetoric of newness and the icon, here is a work of patience, time and leaving alone. This might explain why it is already feted by critics, politicians and the Berlin public, even though it is empty of the objects it was built to serve. Its completion feels like one of those moments when a museum building, like the Pompidou Centre or the Guggenheim Bilbao, has caught a collective mood.
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