Neue Nationalgalerie | Berlin | Mies van der Rohe | Modern architecture tour - walking tour | 4K HDR

A walking tour of Neue Nationalgalerie of Mies van der Rohe, in Berlin.

The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century. It is part of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. The museum building and its sculpture gardens were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1968. (wikipedia)

The plan of the Neue Nationalgalerie is divided into two distinct stories. The upper story serves as an entrance hall as well as the primary special exhibit gallery, totaling 2,683 m² of space. It is elevated from street level and only accessible by three flights of steps. Though it only comprises a small portion of the total gallery space, the exhibition pavilion stands boldly as the building's primary architectural expression. Eight cruciform columns, two on each length placed so as to avoid corners, support a square pre-stressed steel roof plate 1.8 meters thick and painted black. An 18-meter cantilever allows for ample space between the gallery's glazed façade and eight supporting columns. Mies' office studied this cantilever extensively in various scaled models in order to ensure its structural stability as well as the seeming flatness of the roof plate. The floor-to-ceiling height reaches 8.4 meters, and the space is laid out on a 3.6-meter square dimensional grid. Black anodized aluminum "egg crates" fit within the grid house lighting fixtures, with air ducts suspended above.

The lower story serves primarily as housing for the gallery's permanent collection, though it also includes a library, offices, and a shop and café, and totals about 10,000 m² of space. It is three-quarters below ground so as to allow for safe storage of the artwork. Its sole glazed façade looks out on the museum's sloping sculpture garden and provides ample indirect interior lighting.

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柏林新國家美術館是密斯·凡德羅60年代初應邀為西柏林設計新的國家美術館，於1968年落成。2015年的時候由英國的建築師David Chipperfield監督翻新，直到2021年8月完成維護以及設備升級並對外開放。
這座美術館為上下兩層的正方形建築，一層在地上一層在地下。位於地上的展覽大廳四周為玻璃幕牆，是一個邊長為50.4公尺的正方形。鋼製屋頂邊長為64.8公尺，由8根8.4公尺的十字形截面鋼柱支撐。
美術館的上層只是用作臨時性的展覽，主要的藝術品以及設施都在地下一層（比如圖書館，咖啡廳，辦公室等）。
這座建築是密斯對極簡建築風格探索的體現，可以看到他對鋼結構與玻璃幕牆在設計中的極致應用以及他對室內外空間的理解（定義空間而不是分割空間）。有人稱它是鋼與玻璃的現代“帕特農神廟” 。

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