{"id":27883,"date":"2021-09-22T08:55:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=27883"},"modified":"2021-09-22T08:55:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:55:47","slug":"what-is-conservation-the-neues-museum-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/what-is-conservation-the-neues-museum-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"What is #Conservation ? The Neues Museum #Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
The faithful readers and Instagram followers may have spotted that I was in Berlin recently (half of the week was in Berlin but had to cut the trip short when the Passivhaus conference in the other half was moved (again) online).<\/p>\n
The last time I was in the city was on a 5th year college field trip in 1987 – pre-wall coming down. Obviously, the changes and mobility in the city have been incredible to experience and one of the architects that has a major hand in the redevelopment has been David Chipperfield Architects<\/a><\/p>\n Now this isn’t a hugely long blog post eulogising on David Chipperfield Architects and nor is it an in-depth analysis of their approach to conservation philosophy – it’s just a couple of observations about how conservation can be approached…<\/p>\n Building 1: The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) – restoration by David Chipperfield Architects<\/strong><\/p>\n You can read much more about the restoration HERE IN DEZEEN<\/a><\/p>\n Let’s first look at what the building looked like when it first opened in 1968:<\/p>\n