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"Fisheye view of the Jewish Museum
Berlin. The building was designed by Daniel Libeskind and completed in 1999.
The concrete columns are a part of the E.T.A. Hoffmann Garden of Exile and
Emigration." |
| "Fisheye view of the E.T.A. Hoffmann
Garden of Exile and Emigration.".
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| View of the Jewish Museum Berlin from Linderstrassse.
The building was designed by Daniel Libeskind and completed in 1999. The concrete
columns are a part of the E.T.A. Hoffmann Garden of Exile and Emigration.
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| Close-up of the zinc-clad exterior of the museum.
The architect determined the pattern of the windows by drawing lines connecting
the addresses of Germans and Jews on a map of the surrounding neighborhood.
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| The Garden of Exile and Emigration, in front of
the south facade of the museum. Forty-nine concrete columns stand at an incline,
with trees planted inside. Forty-eight columns, filled with Berlin earth, stand
for 1948, the year the nation of Israel was born. The 49th column, filled with
earth from Jerusalem, stands for Berlin.
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| Close-up of zinc-clad exterior of the museum, with
intersecting window bands.
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| The windows bear no relationship to the division
of floors within the building.
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| Window patterns.
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| Libeskind derived the folded shape of the museum
from many sources including lines on a map of Berlin connecting important figures
in the Jewish cultural history of the city.
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| View of walls surrounding the Paul Celan Court.
Celan was a Jewish poet.
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| View of walls surrounding the Paul Celan Court.
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The south facade of the Holocaust Void (tower), a
concrete, freestanding structure connected underground to the museum. A single
window is the only source of light for the empty, unheated interior of the
tower. |
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A corner of the Holocaust Void, a concrete, freestanding
structure connected underground to the museum. |
