Leuphana Zentralgebäude

A friend of mine, who used to study at Leuphana Universität of Lüneburg just outside Hamburg, suggested me to pay a visit to its campus when I travelled to Hamburg London last fall.  The main Zentralgebäude building, completed in 2017, was designed by Daniel Libeskind.  It is in the same style as Libeskind's 2007 addition to Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).  I couldn't have waited to see it, and it surely didn't disappoint me.

Thank you, T, for your recommendation.

Proun-Raum vs Jüdisches Museum

El Lissitzky's reconstructed Proun-Raum at Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2018:

Daniel Libeskind's 2001 Jüdisches Museum, Berlin:

Kö-Bogen

Daniel Libeskind's 2013 office/retail complex Kö-Bogen contributes to the already star-studded architectural circus of Düsseldorf:

Crystal + Pluto

Inside Daniel Libeskind's 2007 Crystal, addition to Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum (ROM):

Douglas Coupland currently at the ROM:

Akademie des Jüdischen Museums Berlin

I visited this relatively unattended building when I was in Berlin last summer - not a single visitor inside.  Right across the street from Daniel Libeskind's well renowned 2001 Jüdisches Museum is the recently completed Akademie des Jüdischen Museums Berlin.  It's so unmistakably Libeskind.

Libeskind's 2012 Akademie des Jüdischen Museums Berlin:

Libeskind's 2001 Jüdisches Museum:

Micromegas + Panama

Daniel Libeskind's Micromegas Project, Time Sections at the MoMA, New York 2013:

Boris Becker's Festplatte Kokain Panama at Kunsthalle Bremen, 2013:

Axis of remembrance*

I am leaving Berlin for Hamburg this afternoon.  I'll finish my Berlin chapter on a more sombre note.  I visited Daniel Libeskind's Jüdisches Museum (Jewish Museum) yesterday and Peter Eisenman's Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe or Holocaust Memorial) this morning.

Libeskind's 2001 Jüdisches Museum, Berlin:

Eisenman's 2005 Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Berlin:

It was a grey day when I trod the wavering ground of the memorial this morning.

* Axis of Exile, Axis of Holocaust and Axis of Continuation are the three major axes in the design of Jüdisches Museum

Romanticism vs geometry

Toronto's Angell Gallery is currently showing Andrew Rucklidge's recent works.  The clash of Romantic landscapes with crystalline geometry in Rucklidge's paintings reminds me of Daniel Libeskind's ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) not too far away downtown.