Berlin Denkmal

Berlin Denkmal: Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe, under construction in Germany's capital. After a 12 year competition that featured hundreds of entries, the design by American Architect Peter Eisenman was chosen. It features 2500 granite stones, in the form of a rolling cemetery, within sight of the Bundestag, the German Parliament, with its new glass dome by Sir Norman Foster, British Architect, and close to the Brandenburg Gate and the Tiergarten. The building of the monument has been controversial because of the negativity implied in its construction. Countries rarely build monuments to their own crimes, especially in the capital on prime land where it will be a continual subject of discourse.

See: Holocaust Mahnmal - Gedächtnis aus Stein

Model of Peter Eisenman's winning design
Cutaway of Peter Eisenman's design showing interior study center	Site of Berlin-Denkmal Project
Berlin-Denkmal site - July 2002
Berlin-Denkmal Site July 2002. (Plan for night lighting)	Image of night scene at monument
View of Tiergarten from Denkmal site	Berlin-Denkmal 4.1 acre site
View from Denkmal site toward Reichstag with glass dome	Model of interior space
	Model of underground study and memorial center
Interior Museum Space	Projections on interior floor will imitate ground level monument

Below. Photos of the Berlin Memorial taken by Professor Marty Kalb, Art Department, Ohio Wesleyan University.

Views from Tiergarten toward Under der Linden	View from Tiergarten toward Under der Linden. Note scale of monuments in relation to people
Rows of more than 2500 granite blocks creates the idea of cemetery in the very center of Berlin.	As the ground becomes a valley, the visitor loses the vista of the city, a metaphor for how th eGermans under Nazism lost their way.
The height of some of the monuments recalles some of the architecture of Nazi Germany.	Shadows create the effect of multiples
Walking visior suggests scale .

The photos below show varying views of the Berlin Denkmal from various perspectives. The site is 4.1 acres in size, making the blocks appears as a sea of objects. At a certain point near the center, the viewer loses a view of the city, a metaphor for hos the Germans lost their way in attitudes towards the Jews of Europe.

Interior is a Museum that contains a chronological history of the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, and letters of victims on the floor projected through light boxes. The boxes on the floor mirror the monument above.

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