ARCHITECT'S

The New National Gallery in Berlin is basically made up of one big empty space that is confined by glass walls. And this space is squeezed in by two hori-zontal planes: a monumental cantilevering roof, made out of metal, and a stone-covered platform upon which one arrives through a flight of stairs. It could be said that it is the synthesis of many decades of architectural thinking in Mies van der Rohe. It goes back to projects that started right after the Second World War, where Mies tried to build a completely open, column-free space. (© MoMA)

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