The space was very lively, I don’t know if this movement was determined by the fact that it was the last day it could be visited. There was also some tension in the air. I’ve never seen this area so active before. Any piece of public space connected in one way or another to the object seems activated and intensely used now – the surrounding squares, the cafe space, the stairs<\/em>”,Laurian said.<\/p>\nUnlike Laurian, I visited the space at the beginning of the year, when the pandemic tension could not yet be felt. My perception of the outer promenade among the columns was that of a space that you’d stop to contemplate for a long time, but that speeds you up by the pace at which things happen, by the speed of people passing by just when you found the right spot of looking at it.<\/p>\n
But this coherence of the combination old-new, the logic of each access that seems to fit like a puzzle piece in the general access of the old wing, the fluency of the promenade and the deliberate continuation of the rhythm dictated by the old building are given by a coherent staging of the project, which was conceived 20 years ago. The Museum Island was rebuilt after World War II (four out of five museums needed intervention), and in 1999 the whole complex became part of the UNESCO heritage. In the year 2000, the master plan for the Museum Island was presented to the public for the first time, containing all the changes up that have been made to that moment. The construction of the new access device started in December 2009, and the building was open to the public starting with July 2019.<\/p>\n
Although it has a strong impact on city life – being almost a sculpture that invites you to approach it from all sides – the new access building designed by David Chipperfield Architects must be visited and explored as a whole, in relation to the Neues Museum – restored and thought to the last detail by the same office. Throughout, you can understand the vision of the project – both the restoration and the access device. The transition from the new columns to old ones, the rich restoration of the interior of the old museum, the impact that the staircase has as a stage in both interventions make it impossible to disconnect the two projects, although once you reach the heart of the old museum, you encounter a different world – one that focuses exclusively on highlighting the existing, as in a musealization project.<\/p>\n
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