2001 · Berlin, Germany

Jewish Museum Berlin

Daniel Libeskind

A zinc-clad zigzag that uses architecture itself to tell a story of presence and absence in 20th-century Berlin.

• "Voids" — empty concrete shafts cutting through the building — embody loss
• Slashed window cuts trace lines between addresses of pre-war Jewish Berliners
• Three intersecting axes: Continuity, Emigration, Holocaust