i think it s you wake up every morning wishing it was a bad dream and we should it s a very negative you feel like you re you were you ve gone into reverse gear you know i mean. you know i was born in one fifty three somehow you always had the feeling that. things progressed right and you have the feeling that breaks it is a sort of dead end and so on the flip side of that back in berlin which is definitely progress thinking forward your buildings can be found throughout the city how do you approach these projects that are so deeply rooted in german history . well i suppose the noise museum. was a mess and it was you know it was our grounding in this discussion and we come to. you know a more profound you know being thrown into the deep in the in this discussion but i think i think we embrace. i mean the simple and simple answer is to britain embrace it and enjoy it and in the way the science that things are so meaningful but in
would you prefer is berlin office is a modern complex a comfortable atmosphere for his employees so here we are in your berlin office you ve been here since one thousand nine hundred seven why were led. very simple we won a competition for the rich restoration reconstruction of the noise museum. this was a super complicated project both technically programatic clearly politically even socially. so it was a project which you could not do a distance and it was a project that we really had to be on the ground in the office began with. a small cabin on the side outside of the building so how has berlin developed architecturally things your first arrived. the biggest changes i would say in recent years is the. the increase in value of the city and the fact that the rest
thoughts and ideas and give them shape and did you have to cut through a lot of red tape german notorious red tape briefly. on the whole i rather like red tape i mean so you know i mean i would say breaks it is about getting rid of this red tape because the anglo-saxon culture thinks that enterprise works better without red tape but red tape is there for a reason often as well i mean yeah maybe this if you live too much sometimes but the principle of red tape is not wrong so you not only have a pension for berlin you also have a i have a connection to go d.c. and spain what draws you to this region. accidentally we went there twenty five years ago with three small children and of being going going to have a sense and built a house and. i think it s. you know i mean we always use words in a very crude way but it s you know it s unspoiled which of course one can say that
berlin everything means something you know it s a city then it s with history and you know the anecdotes is of course that all cities have history in but it has too much. and of course that s something which we try to integrate into our considerations are what we want to take a closer look at the indelible mark that you have left on berlin s famous museum island. five major museums are crowded on to berlin is museum island in the river. where the items mostly are which houses the collection of classical antiquity. the other two not. nineteenth century on. the enormous museum which cuts the cost of egyptian wheat among its collection. the palatable museum currently undergoing renovation with its famous pattern one
impressive architectural achievement in the future. david shipler feeling started on this project in one thousand nine hundred nine his philosophy was to respect the ruin and not to cover up the marks left by history he wanted to restore and carefully preserve this historical building while sensitively complementing it with modern elements and some sort of. it s and water and food for. the fields architecture firm develops amongst the plan to overhaul museum island and also draw up plans for berlin is brand new james e. moore gallery it s set to open its doors in the summer of twenty nineteen and will serve as the entrance building and visitor center for museum island to be friends right now the five museums are like five friends sitting at one table. but with their backs to each other. and. james in the gallery will link the open spaces and