Two weeks ago, Herzog & de Meuron was announced as the winners of the international competition to design the new Museum of the 20th Century to be located adjacent to Mies van der Rohe?s seminal Neue Galerie in the heart of the Berlin Cultural Forum in Berlin, Germany.

Two weeks ago, Herzog & de Meuron was announced as the winners of the international competition to design the new Museum of the 20th Century to be located adjacent to Mies van der Rohe?s seminal Neue Galerie in the heart of the Berlin Cultural Forum in Berlin, Germany.We?ve now received additional proposals for the competition, including honorable mention-awarded entries from OMA, Staab Architekten, and Aires Mateus e Associados, and a finalist proposal from REX, that show alternative strategies for the site.OMA
By Frans Parthesius. Image © OMA

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Berlin?s new museum is planned on a seemingly intimidating site surrounded on all sides by exceptionally strong and articulate architectures, sandwiched between a never fully accepted urban motorway and an anemic pedestrian Prom- enade: the two typologies that (unfortunately) de ne our cities today.

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As in judo, we have embraced the site?s dilemmas and turned them into the very leitidee of the project. We don?t inter- pret this competition as a loyalty test, we divide our loyalties between the surrounding masterpieces.

By Frans Parthesius. Image © OMA
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