Visit DAVID CHIPPERFIELD James Simon Gallery | Travel to Architectural Masterpieces

How to insert a contemporary building into a historical context?
In this chapter, we travel to Berlin and visit 'James Simon Gallery', built by the British architect DAVID CHIPPERFIELD.
Enjoy it :)
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[@ab8jeh]

I visited Christmas 2019. I know it's Chipperfield, but I found the building to be overly cold and not sitting well adjacent to the existing structure, particularly at the arcade. The open colonnade on the left is just dead space to nowhere. I was really surprised as the main Neues Museum update by Chipperfield is such a success.
Keep up the good work with these! Hope the channel really takes off soon.

[@AtelierMatico]

Hi Je5,
What a pleasure to read your comment. This is the critical spirit we celebrate in Deep Reading Architecture.
It is really a difficult project to be made and probably surrounded by too much history. I wonder what I could propose if I have the chance, and the answer is not easy at all. But I agree about some adjustments.

In relation to this topic, I recommend you take a look at the 'Alten Pinakothek restoration' by Hans Döllgast. München (1952-1957). From my point of view, an exquisite intervention to a historical building ruin during WWII. A new video about it is coming soon! :)
Many thanks for your good desires, and let me take the chance to ask you:
What kind of buildings would you like to watch on the channel?
Is there some architect, building, or topic you would like to find here?
Some suggestions for the channel and its content?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
All the best,
Matias

[@cioccolateriaveneziana]

Also, what irritates me are the windows below the gallery at 4:06 - they just "happen" to be there, without any compository relation to the rest.

[@cioccolateriaveneziana]

Overpriced by 100 %. Somehow, in the 21st century, the "perfectionist" Germans (as the cliché goes) didn't realize that the same area hat static problems in the 1830's so it could have them also now... "The most expensive museum wardrobe in the world", some nicknamed it.
I wouldn't mind so much if the stone that was used would blend with the surrounding architecture to which it clearly refers. Warm, yellowish limestone. But no, it's cold, white, it draws the attention to itself instead of elevating the much more important buildings around.