Bauakademie
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Designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the Bauakademie was built between 1832 and 1836 near the Berliner Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace) to house institutions such as the Oberbaudeputation, the Higher Council of Architecture, and the Königliche Technische Hochschule, the technical royal faculty, which will give birth in 1879 to the Technische Universität.
The Bauakademie by Schinkel is considered as one of the forerunner buildings of modern architecture due to the use of materials (red brick) and the shape of the building.
Damaged during World War II, the Bauakademie was then partially restored, but in 1962 the building was demolished to make room for the future Minister of Foreign Affairs of GDR.
In 1995, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of East Germany is demolished in order to recreate the Werderscher Markt area.
Since then, it is proposed to rebuild the Bauakademie of Schinkel. Already a nearby building, the Alte Kommandantur, has been rebuilt by Bertelsmann. A sample partial reconstruction has already been performed between 2000 and 2001 by students, and a temporary structure has been put into place to provide an impression of the volume of the building.
It is proposed to accommodate in the Bauakademie a future architecture museum and Mercedes-Benz research institute about the future of automotive.
The cost of the project is 51 millions euros.
