ishtar gate

Babylon's Ishtar Gate at Berlin's Pergamon Museum.

I asked a brick what it wanted to be. It replied: "A LION!"

Dutch Embassy, Berlin

OMA's Dutch Embassy. Detail showing different approaches to wood as a material.

Shalachet

“Shalachet” (Fallen Leaves), installation in the Jewish Museum's "Memory Void"

Possibly the best space/moment in Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum, a tall room/void filled with these metal faces. Visitors walk on the these, creating an eerie clanging.

Jewish Memorial

IMG_0565, originally uploaded by tyleroguy.

The first photos from the Europe trip have started hitting Flickr - this is Tyler's photo of the Jewish Memorial in Berlin, designed by Peter Eisenman.