Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin in the Eric F. Ross building

Almost 13 years after Daniel Libeskind’s extension to the Jewish Museum Berlin opened to great acclaim in 2001, the museum unveiled its third collaboration with the architect, the Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin. The one-floor, 25,000-square-foot building is located on the historic site of the Blumengrossmarkt (flower market) across the street from the Jewish Museum Berlin. Entitled “In-Between Spaces,” the design links the building to the museum’s other structures and open spaces both thematically and structurally. Visitors enter through a downward thrusting cube that intersects with the main rectangular hall, suggestive of the original Kollegienhaus building and the Libeskind-designed extension. Moving into the structure, two more cubes are revealed, housing the library and the auditorium, forming a jagged triumvirate with the entrance cube. The name for the design is derived from the transitional area among the three cubes. It also alludes to the different perspectives the unique vantage point offers.

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