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Project: Bode-Museum on the Museum Island, Berlin/Germany
Third prize of Category "Education/Learning/Culture"
Refurbishment, adaptation and design of the permanent collection
The brief was to undertake a general restoration of Berlin's Bode Museum. The task was to bring the museum's technical facilities up to modern standards while respecting the character, dignity and authenticity of this iconic listed building. This posed a twofold challenge - in design and in conservation. The architectural concept is aimed at creating a new naturalness in the sense of a complementary coexistence of the old and the new. New parts of the building should not contrast with the original fabric, but should be of a piece with it. In this way the museum can be experienced as a whole - as a collection and as the building that houses it.
The jury's verdict:
"The design project is seen - refreshingly - not as an exercise in presenting the old and the new as seemingly inevitable contrasting opposites, but as an exercise in combining the new with the old and creating a coherent, complementary coexistence."
