Neue Nationalgalerie
The Neue Nationalgalerie is Berlin’s modern-art showcase, built around a daring idea that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pushed to structural—and visual—limits. Designed for the Kulturforum in what was then West Berlin south of the Tiergarten park, it opened on 15 September 1968 as part of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. Inside, the museum is organized into two levels. The upper story provides the main special-exhibition space—2,683 m²—and sits above street level, reached by three flights of steps. Its architectural signature is a pavilion supported by eight cruciform columns, with a black pre-stressed steel roof plate 1.8 meters thick. That roof extends on an 18-meter cantilever, creating a wide, open span between the glazed façade and its supports, while the space runs on a 3.6-meter square grid. …
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