2024-12-22T03:16:50-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150170674/construction-costs-for-herzog-de-meuron-s-museum-of-the-20th-century-ballooning Alexander Walter 2019-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/04/044cb98f3e85c54423f8dc0b3833948e.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The budget committee of Germany&rsquo;s lower house of parliament yesterday approved additional funding for Berlin&rsquo;s planned Museum of the 20th Century, designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog &amp; de Meuron, after estimates for the construction costs spiralled to &euro;364m from &euro;200m.</p></em><br /><br /><p>According to <em>The Art Newspaper</em>, the new Herzog &amp; de Meuron-designed museum in Berlin's central <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/635790/kulturforum" target="_blank">Kulturforum arts district</a> is needed because "the Neue Nationalgalerie can only display about a quarter of Berlin&rsquo;s vast stores of 20th-century art at any given time."<br></p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ae/aea651cc7b57fa6bf8d199836345f363.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ae/aea651cc7b57fa6bf8d199836345f363.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Current situation at the planned site for the new museum with Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie from 1968 on the left. Photo: Miriam Guterland/Wikimedia Commons.</figcaption></figure> https://archinect.com/news/article/134492229/berliners-are-getting-their-hopes-up-for-transformed-kulturforum-arts-district Alexander Walter 2015-08-17T13:24:00-04:00 >2019-11-15T14:52:33-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3y/3yitjvtxsum77mz8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The neighborhood &mdash; a central district that was dismantled by the Nazis, battered by Allied bombs and radically reconfigured by postwar architects &mdash; has foiled urban planners, exasperated patrons of the arts and demoralized generations of Berliners intent on seeing their city made once more into a cohesive whole. [...] Many are hoping that all that strife is in the past now that a new museum of modern art will be built in the much-maligned arts quarter.</p></em><br /><br /><p>In recent Berlin news on Archinect:</p> <ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/132504520/berlin-s-world-class-museums-struggle-to-build-up-excitement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Berlin's world-class museums struggle to build up excitement</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/131960517/berlin-lists-communist-era-towers-of-alexanderplatz-as-historical-monuments-gehry-high-rise-still-happening" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Berlin lists communist-era towers of Alexanderplatz as historical monuments; Gehry high-rise still happening</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/130331694/herzog-de-meuron-to-redevelop-berlin-s-infamous-tacheles-cultural-center-locals-fear-gentrification" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Herzog &amp; de Meuron to redevelop Berlin&rsquo;s infamous Tacheles cultural center; locals fear gentrification</a></li></ul><p>Heading to Berlin soon? Don't miss this excellent <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/132034420/let-j-rgen-mayer-h-help-plan-your-next-trip-to-berlin-with-his-own-travel-tips" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Berlin City Guide</strong></a> with architectural and cultural highlights that&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/2501/j-mayer-h-und-partner-architekten" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">J&uuml;rgen Mayer H.</a> exclusively curated for Archinect. The Kulturforum is of course among his recommended sites.</p>