Neue Nationalgalerie
NEUE NATIONALGALERIE
David Chipperfield Architects
ARCHITECTS
David Chipperfield Architects
ARCHITECTS
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin
MANUFACTURERS
Dornbracht
PHOTOGRAPHS
Simon Menges, Landesarchiv Berlin, Photo: Horst Siegmann, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Zentralarchiv, Reinhard Friedrich., Archiv Neue Nationalgalerie, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Reinhard Friedrich
LIGHTING CONSULTANT
Arup Deutschland GmbH
PARTNERS IN CHARGE
David Chipperfield, Martin Reichert, Alexander Schwarz
PROJECT ARCHITECTS
Daniel Wendler and Michael Freytag (Concept design to Technical design, Site design supervision)
CLIENTS
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz represented by the Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung.
ORIGINAL BUILDING DESIGN
Mies Van der Rohe
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Arne Maibohm
PROJECT CONTROLLING
KVL Bauconsult GmbH
USER
Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
CONCEPT DESIGN TO DEVELOPED DESIGN
Marianne Akay, Thomas Benk, Matthias Fiegl, Anke Fritzsch, Dirk Gschwind, Anne Hengst, Franziska Michalsky, Maxi Reschke
TECHNICAL DESIGN
Sebastian Barrett, Alexander Bellmann, Martina Betzold, Anke Fritzsch, Dirk Gschwind, Lukas Graf, Martijn Jaspers, Christopher Jonas, Franziska Michalsky, Maxi Reschke, Christian Vornholt, Lukas Wichmann;
VISUALIZATIONS
Dalia Liksaite, Simon Wiesmaier
RESTORATION CONSULTANT
Pro Denkmal GmbH, Berlin
FIT OUT
Yannic Calvez, Ute Zscharnt
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER
GSE Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH Saar Enseleit und Partner Berlin
EXECUTIVE ARCHITECT
BAL Bauplanungs und Steuerungs GmbH, Berlin (Procurement, construction supervision) Project management: Kerstin Rohrbach
BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEER
Ingenieurgesellschaft W33 mbH, Domann Beratende Ingenieure GmbH
BUILDING PHYSICS PLANNING
Müller-BBM GmbH
CONSULTING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
TOPOS Stadtplanung Landschaftsplanung
ACOUSTICS CONSULTANT
Akustik-Ingenieurbüro Moll GmbH
FIRE CONSULTANTS
HHP West Beratende Ingenieure GmbH
FACADE CONSULTANTS
DS-Plan
YEAR
2021
LOCATION
Berlin, Germany
CATEGORY
Gallery, Renovation
The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an icon of twentieth-century architecture. Planned and built from 1963 to 1968, the steel and glass structure is the only building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Europe after his emigration to the USA.
After almost fifty years of intensive use, the listed building required a comprehensive refurbishment. The existing fabric has been refurbished and upgraded to current technical standards with a minimum of visual compromise to the building’s original appearance.
The functional and technical upgrades include air-conditioning, artificial lighting, security, and visitors’ facilities, such as the cloakroom, café, and the museum shop, as well as improving disabled access and art handling.
The necessity of an extensive repair of the reinforced concrete shell and the complete renewal of the technical building services required an in-depth intervention.
In order to expose the shell construction, around 35,000 original building components, such as the stone cladding and all the interior fittings, were dismantled.
After their restoration and modification where necessary, they were reinstalled in their precise original positions.
The key to the complex planning process for this project was finding a suitable balance between monument conservation and the building’s use as a modern museum.
The unavoidable interventions to the original fabric within this process had to be reconciled with preserving as much of the original substance as possible.
Though the essential additions remain subordinate to the existing design of the building, they are nevertheless discreetly legible as contemporary elements. The refurbishment project does not represent a new interpretation, but rather a respectful repair of this landmark building of the International Style.
