Daniel Libeskind

An important hub of traffic and activities, Alexanderplatz was the nerve center and engine of the city during the first decades of this century and until World War II. Its reduction to rubble during the war offered it the opportunity for a second birth as an expression of the dreams of modernity translated by the bureaucratic regime of the GDR. This huge space dominated by the television tower that became a symbol of divided Berlin is now facing its third great metamorphosis.

The Alexanderplatz operation is the polar opposite of the Potsdamer Platz operation, the price to be paid for the apparent triumph of the traditional city concept in the west. As in the previous operation, many of the ideas that emerged in the first phase of the competition were already present in the 'Berlin Tomorrow' competition-exhibition, held in Frankfurt immediately after the fall of the Wall...[+]