Neues Wunder von Bern

In einem von schweizer Biedersinn und Langeweile geprägten Neubaugebiet sitzt dieses Gebäudekonglomerat wie ein architektonisches Fanal über den Autobahnröhren.
Kann es ein richtiges Leben im falschen geben?

Man kann die Architektursprache eines Holocaustmuseums nicht einem Spaßbad mit Shoppingmall aufsetzen. In dem Schwimmbad würde ich mich nach dem Erlebnis des Berliner Museum mehr als nur bedrückt fühlen - das tue ich ja schon nach den Bildern. In der Shoppingmall kommt die ganze Beliebigkeit zum Ausdruck. Schade eigentlich bei so einem Budget! Architektur war doch eigentlich für den Menschen und dessen Maßstab. Hier empfinde ich Architektur als Design, Mode, der Erfolg eines Projekts wird zur hohlen Idee, die als Dekoration endet. Das schadet nicht nur dem Architekten, sondern dem bisherigen Werk.

Libeskind, der gegenwärtige Hundertwasser.

because it acts for me thereby around two lines, two currents of thoughts, organization and relations. The one line is straight, but into many fragments splintered, the other line winds itself, continues however infinitely. These two lines develop together architecturally and by program by a limited, clearly outlined dialogue. They also fall apart, separate from each other and as separate are seen. In this way they uncover an emptiness, which pulls through this museum - like also architecture as a whole - in again and again interrupted consequence. If one speaks of architecture (or of Berlin and its present situation), one talks at the same time about the paradigm of the irrational one. I believe that the best work of the contemporary spirit rises from the irrational one, while powers of this world, which prevail and often also kill, always do this in the name of the reason. The irrational was my starting point - as it were non--beginnings of this project - likewise Berlin as simultaneous physically and also in the spirit existing place. The location is in the center of old Berlin at the lime tree road, in the proximity of the famous baroque crossing of William route, Friedrichstrasse and lime tree road. In the periphery of this place in former times many famous Germans, and many famous Jews - all together citizens of Berlin - lived, humans, who contributed to the culture, which we as a ' citizen of Berlin culture '; know. At the same time I felt that the physical sketch of the city Berlin was not the none - there was there also still another an invisible matrix or anamnesis of linkages in human relations, which I did not only discover between German and Jewish personalities, but also between the urban history of Berlin and the history of the Jews in Germany and in Berlin. I recognized that certain humans, especially some scientists, composer, artist and poet links between Jewish tradition and German culture were.

genau das ist es.