In the large-scale handbook of restoration that Berlin is, amid everything that in the period following World War II was reconstructed exactly like before and everything that on the other hand was demolished to make room for modern structures, a building stands out – apart of course from Chipperfield’s Neues Museum – that is neither-nor: the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. This is an edifice in which Egon Eierman combined some bright prisms of concrete and glass, intended for liturgical rites, with the remains of the devastated neo-Romanesque temple, preserved as a remembrance of the impact of air raids. The Dublin-based practice Heneghan Peng, in collaboration with the museum exhibition design expert Ralph Appelbaum, will be in charge of improving visitors’ experience of the ruins with a sensitive scheme that enlarges the space two-fold, and includes a meditation spot with a circular pool of water that echoes the rose window blown up by shells.[+]