Daniel Libeskind’s design (l) for a glass roof for Berlin’s Jewish Museum (r)

The Art Newspaper reports on the new design by architect Daniel Libes­kind for a glass roof ­covering the u-shaped courtyard of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, for which he also made the exuberantly zig-zag shaped and much talked about extension that officially opened in 2001.

Inspired by Sukkah, the temporary huts in which the Israelites dwelled during their 40-year exodus from Egypt, the structure consists of free-standing tree-like steel pillars that support a glass canopy. The pillars spread out to form a latticed web across the ceiling while a glass façade extending from the front of the Old Building turns the courtyard into an enclosed space for museum events.

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