The Jewish Museum in Berlin was built between 1993-1998 on the site of the former Kollegienhaus, which previously housed the Jewish Museum. An international competition was held in 1989 to design the new museum dedicated to Jewish history. Daniel Libeskind's radical zigzag design, nicknamed 'Blitz', was selected. The empty museum was completed in 1999 and attracted over 350,000 visitors before opening in 2001. Libeskind's design uses voids and sharp angles to represent the violence and rupture in German-Jewish history.

1. JEWISH MUSEUM
BERLIN
BUILT IN 1993-1998

2. RAISED TO THE GROUND BY BOMBARDMENT
AND BATTEL BY THE NAZIS THE KVIBSBERG DISTRICT WAS REBUILT
IN THE 60s
WITH SOME REMAINS LIKE THE COLLIGEN HOUSE WHICH WAS THEN
THE JEWISH MUSEUM AND NOW THE OLD BERLIN MUSEUM
SOON AFTER THE CONSTRUCTION FOR THE NEW BERLIN MUSEUM
WAS PUT FORWARD THROUGH A COMPETITION DEDICATED TO
JEWISH HISTORY
165 ARCHITECTS PARTICIPATED IN THE COMPETITION

4. A year later, Daniel Libeskind's design was
chosen for the commission for what was then
planned as a “Jewish Department” for the
Berlin Museum.
While other entrants proposed cool, neutral
spaces, Libeskind offered a radical, zigzag
design, which earned the nickname 'Blitz
The empty museum was completed in 1999
and attracted over 350,000 people before it
was filled and opened on September 9, 2001.

5. THE DESIGN
BLITZ- LIGHTNING
TOTURED DISCREET FORM
TO SHOW ALL VOILENCE
RUPTURY IN HISTORY OF
JEWS AND GERMANY
THE BEAUTIFUL TREES
ALREDY EXISTING ON THE
SITE GAVE THE DIRECTION
OR THE ANGELS TO THE
BUILDING
ACCORDING TO THE
ARCHITECT
THE TREES WHICH ARE
SINCE THE WARS TOLD THE
HISTORY OF BERLIN

6. THE OLD AND THE NEW

7. PLAN OF THE JEWISH MUSEUM

9. VOID OF MEMORY

10. THERE ARE THREE
CORRIDORS ACCESS
SYSTEM
SYMMETRICALY
ARRANGED
SHOWING 3 MAJOR
EXPERIENCES IN
GERMAN JEWDAISUM
CONTINUITY,
EXILE AND DEATH

11. ASHTONISHING CUTS

12. THE EMPTY EXIBIT AND THE HOLOCAST
TOWER

18. BY
RACHANA KANDARI
T.Y.B.ARCH
B.V.C.O.A