Key Buildings:
Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany
Photo © Guenter Schneider
Imperial War Museum Manchester, England
image © adrian welch
Daniel Libeskind Buildings, alphabetical:
Between The Lines, Berlin, Germany
1989-99
Citylife Museum – proposal, Milan, Italy
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Contemporary Jewish Museum, Mission St, San Francisco, USA
2008
Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong
2002-08
The Crystals, CityCenter Las Vegas project, Texas, USA
2008
500,000sqft entertainment / retail space
Denver Art Museum - Extension, Denver, USA
2000-06
Epic Condominium High-Rise, Sacramento, USA
2004-07
Felix Nussbaum Haus Museum, Osnabrück, Germany
1995-98
Grand Canal Performing Arts Centre and Galleria, Dublin, Ireland
2004-10
Hyundai Development Corporation HQ - Facade, Seoul, South Korea
2003-05
Imperial War Museum North, Manchester, England
1997-02
Jewish Museum - new glass courtyard extension, Berlin, Germany
2007
Jewish War Veterans Memorial, Toronto, Canada
2005-06
Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, London, England
2001-03
Memoria e Luce 9/11 Memorial, Padua, Italy
2004-05
MGM MIRAGE CityCentre, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
2007
Adamson Associates & Studio Daniel Libeskind
Militärhistorisches Museum, Dresden, Germany
2003-08
The Museum Residences, Denver, Colorado, USA
2000-06
New Center for Arts and Culture, USA
2004-08
Renaissance ROM Extension to Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2002-06
Sacramento Tower, California, USA
2004-07
Aura condominium tower, 601 Capitol Mall: 38 storeys
Studio Weil Private gallery for Barbara Weil, Port d'Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
1998-2003
The Wohl Centre: The Book and the Wall, Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel
2000-05
Studio Daniel Libeskind with The Heder Partnership
Unawatuna, Sri Lanka
2005
Union City Condominiums, USA
2005
Recent Studio Libeskind Projects:
Bern building, Switzerland
2008
Dresden Military History Museum, Germany
2010
The Ascent, Kentucky, USA
2008
Photo © Michele Nastasi
Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
2007
Image: finest-images, © ROM 2006. All rights reserved
Grand Canal Square Dublin, Ireland
2004-10
44 Zlota tower Warsaw, Poland
2008-
image © Studio Daniel Libeskind
Studio Libeskind : alphabetical list of all key buildings only
Daniel Libeskind Education:
Cooper Union, New York, USA
1970: Architecture graduate
School of Comparative Studies at Essex University
1972: History & Theory of Architecture postgraduate
Jewish Museum Berlin building - image © isabelle lomholt
Daniel Libeskind - Previous Positions:
Cranbrook School of Art and Design, Michigan, USA
1978-85: Head of the Department of Architecture
Architecture Intermundium - Institute for Architecture & Urbanism, Milan, Italy
1986-89: Founder + Director
Daniel Libeskind - Current Positions:
Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Paul Cret Chair of Architecture
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany
Professor
Daniel Libeskind Architects:
The architecture practice started in 1990 in Berlin. The Jewish Museum Berlin -
won in 1989 - was the springboard.
Libeskind's most influential building to date is surely the Berlin Jewish Museum: it's approach to the facade - with angular slots - and merging of wall, roof and floor (again using angles) was fairly original. Although he had done similar smaller projects - and angular architecture has been achieved by other architects such as Eisenman, Fuksas, Hadid, and, to a lesser extent people like Alsop and Tschumi - this felt new and challenging. The materials assisted this impression: compared to say the Wexner Centre the Jewish Museum seemed to have a dark sinister side - irrespective of its content and reason for being.
Daniel Libeskind is an American citizen.
Daniel Libeskind Awards:
American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Architecture
Berlin Cultural Prize
TIME magazine's The Best of 1998 Design Awards
German Architecture Prize 1999
Goethe Prize 1999
Daniel Libeskind Exhibitions:
MOMA, New York, USA
MAK, Vienna, Germany
MAK, Lso Angeles, USA
NAi, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Daniel Libeskind Books
Portrait photograph from SDL 091007
Daniel Libeskind - key current Project:
Freedom Tower New York - Site of World Trade Center
Ground Zero, Lower Manhattan
2004-
Daniel Libeskind Architects + David Childs of SOM Architects
Controversial towers to replace the World Trade Centre skyscrapers lost to New York in 2001. The main skyscraper by Libeskind was to be a significant number of feet high - 1,776 ft - to mark a key American date in history - United States Year of Independence; the building was largely handed over to architect David Childs. Designed to be the tallest tower in the world for the site leaseholder - real estate developer Larry Silverstein. The angular design is typical for Libeskind but here echoes the Statue of Liberty. A Snohetta building was also due to appear but the situation is in a state of flux, more online soon - 2006.
Daniel Libeskind was commissioned to design the Freedom Tower after a strongly
contested World Trade Center design competition in Feb 2003, beating architects
such as Norman Foster and in the end winning a two-strong shortlist.
Six teams were shortlisted in Sep 2002 out of over 400 submissions, including:
Foster & Partners
Richard Meier Architect
Studio Daniel Libeskind
United Architects
Think Group
Gehry Partners LLP and Snøhetta were selected as architects for the World Trade Center cultural complex by Lower Manhattan Development Corporation in Dec 2004
New York Skyscrapers
Ørestad City masterplan Copenhagen
Denver Art Museum - Colorado Building : first completed building in North America
Links to key Studio Libeskind buildings:
Graduate Centre London
Freedom Tower New York
Danish Jewish Museum
Daniel Libeskind - Unbuilt Building Projects:
V&A Museum London, England - architecture competition win
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Lancashire Rainforest Project - Blackpool / Southport, England, UK
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Daniel Libeskind - Maggies Centre : Cambridge Building
World Trade Centre - New Museum Complex
Ground Zero
2006?
Snohetta, Architects
International Freedom Centre + Drawing Centre. Also named the WTC Cultural Center. Snøhetta Architects became well known with their Alexandria library in
Egypt which won a major architecture competition. Snohetta have an architects office in New York based at 50 Broad St
Another featured building by Daniel Libeskind:
Creative Media Centre - Hong Kong Buildings
Another New York building by Daniel Libeskind:
Condominium tower in Union City, New Jersey.
New York Architects
Daniel Libeskind is registered as an architect in Germany
The Danish Jewish Museum
Proviantpassagen 6, Copenhagen
2004
Daniel Libeskind, Architects
The Jewish Museum is located just south of Christansborg Palace in central
Copenhagen. The Danish Jewish Museum is divided by architect Daniel Libeskind into five parts relating to Jewish culture.
Daniel Libeskind : Wohl Centre Israel - RIBA International Awards 2006
New York Architecture
World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe
Studio Libeskind - Creative Media Centre Hong Kong
Buildings / photos for the Daniel Libeskind page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk
Daniel Libeskind Buildings : page - adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
Website: www.daniel-libeskind.com