Olson Kundig Reinterprets Noah s Ark for Children s Experience at the Jewish Museum in Berlin archdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Members of a museum’s advisory council are usually not between the ages of 6 and 12. But such was and is the case for Anoha, Olson Kundig s addition to The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, which tells the narrative of Noah’s Ark through the Torah (the museum’s name is abstracted from the patriarch’s name). Housed in a 1960’s concrete hall, the 32,300-square-foot exhibition is a freestanding, 23-foot-high, 92-foot-diameter vessel resembling a giant bagel. Made from native spruce and supported by 40 arched laminated trusses, its inviting shape was inspired by ancient and modern sources from a Sumerian tablet to