Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its competition-winning plans to extend the Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, creating a new museum for 20th-century art.
The Museum of the 20th Century will be connected to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 1968 Neue Nationalgalerie building via an underground tunnel.
Located at Berlin's Kulturforum ? a collection of cultural buildings set near Potsdamer Platz ? Herzog & de Meuron's museum will also have the Berliner Philharmonie as a neighbour.

The Basel-based practice headed up by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron was selected to design the scheme ahead of 40 other entrants to the competition, including New York studios SO-IL and Snøhetta, and British firms Zaha Hadid Architects and David Chipperfield Architects. The firm likens the gabled design to a warehouse or barn. The huge perforated-brick hall will house art works from the latter half of the 20th century, while the Mies van der Rohe gallery will host earlier pieces.
"The Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe was mainly intended to exhibit works from the classical modern period. The expansive masterpieces of the second half of the 20th century need larger and more flexible areas for suitable presentation," said a statement from the Kulturforum.

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