Sebastian Redecke   On 14 September 2018, in Berlin, amid refurbishment works at the Neue Nationalgalerie of Mies van der Rohe, a ceremony was held to celebrate the building’s 50th anniversary. The museum had been closed since 2015, and will remain so until 2020. The im

Sebastian Redecke   Placing the starting point of Dominique Perrault’s architecture in the concern for materiality seems obvious. The architect has clear preferences: the list of materials used can be reduced to metal, in all its forms, and, of course, glass. There is n

Sebastian Redecke   The Reichstag in Berlin was built by Paul Wallot 104 years ago. It was no great architecture for the Parliament of the German Empire, and the building raised controversy it its day, as did its location on a curve of the river Spree, close to the olde