David Chipperfield talks about his design of the Neues Museum in detail

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“Finally the Neues Museum is finished. The official handover of the building,newly restored by David Chipperfield,is to take place in early March. The museum,originally built in the mid-nineteenth century,has been in ruins since the end of the Second World War. Its rebuilding is the last of the restoration projects on the city’s Museum Island. ARTS.21 took an exclusive tour,accompanied by the architect and the head of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

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