Bauwelt Berlin Annual

Prominent buildings continue to rise in Berlin's centre. The highlights of 1997 include works by Jean Nouvel, Mathias Ungers, Ieogh Ming Pei, Dominique Perrault, Josef Paul Kleihues and many more. The volume documents, among others, the work of: Renzo Piano and Arata Isozaki at the bow of Potsdamer Platz; Daniel Libenskind's Jewish Museum; Sir Norman Foster's new dome for the Reichstag; and the completed city complexes of Philip Johnson and Aldo Rossi. In addition to urban projects, five new suburbs are presented, ranging from garden-city to stone-block. Berlin's neglected waterfront is also documented, in a series of air views that cover the north-to-south course between the New Towns of Spandau Lake (Kees Christaanse, et al) and Rummelsburg Bay (Herman Hertzberger, et al).