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Adaptive reuse / 2009

Neues Museum Restoration

David Chipperfield Architects · Berlin, Germany

Neues Museum Restoration
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A damaged museum rebuilt without erasing its history.

The project, in context

The project restored the nineteenth-century museum’s room sequence while retaining surviving fabric and traces of damage. David Chipperfield Architects worked with conservation architect Julian Harrap; the museum reopened in 2009.

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    New construction alongside historic fabric

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