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Art Cloud / Graft Architects

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Cultural , News , , ,
 

The Royal Palace at Scholssplatz, located in the german city of Berlin,  was destroyed by the German Democratic Republic in 1962 and in its place, they built the Palace of the Republic which was also demolished in 2005.

Since then many proposals have come, till in 2007, the Bundestag (German Parliament), decided on a reconstruction plan. Three façades of the palace will be rebuilt, and the interior will be renewed. One of the proposals came from Graft Architects who designed an art heaven in the form of a kunsthall for the young and vital international art scene in Berlin. The design is envisioned as an art cloud a temporary light structure of exhibition space, seemingly floating and resting for a moment above the topography of soft mounds.

Seen at designboom. More images after the break.

 

10 comments »

bolongo says:

well, that would for sure have been better than rebuilding a fake palace at this location. …

 
# April 16, 2009 at 12:49
Balkan says:

3rd piece in couple of recent days published here by Graft and almost bad as Chicago station if I remember good.

 
# April 16, 2009 at 14:29
patsch says:

the old palace is some part of our history, and it’s rebuild in a fantastic way.
This project by the graft architects might be good, but not in this place.

 
# April 16, 2009 at 17:28
bolongo says:

patsch you blimpish architect. the old palace is part of our history, but unfortunately it is gone and building up some disneyland facades doesn’t seem like a good solution to me. look into the future man…the emperor is long gone as well…

 
# April 17, 2009 at 01:38
Punjabi says:

i like this design..

 
# April 17, 2009 at 02:00
cuzin says:

I like the design too. It’s modern yet it compliments the surrounding structures well and vice versa. I’d rather have this than rebuild the palace in a disney-fied way

 
# April 17, 2009 at 04:37
bib says:

what an ugly UFO

 
# April 17, 2009 at 05:33
Lucas Gray says:

Cuzin, how does this complement the surrounding buildings?
I am sick of all the blobs being built. Seriously they all tend to look the same and all will be out of fashion in ten years. Remember Post Modernism?

 
# April 18, 2009 at 06:02
yuanweizun says:

good design&website

 
# April 24, 2009 at 01:12
effe says:

Well… I think that these Graft are out of time, it’s several years that they don’t design something at least decent… and every time they has to introduce themself in some conferences they talk about their relation with Brad Pitt!!!…
Come on.. this is not architecture, maybe they’re good in organizing parties or establishing relations with PR and cool magazines… but do you think that the world really needs these fake architects??…

 
# May 7, 2009 at 01:35

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