Humboldt-Box

View from the Cathedral to the Humboldt-Box in September 2011

The Humboldt-Box is a 2011 opened temporary exhibition building on Berlin's Schlossplatz against the Lustgarten in Berlin's Mitte district. Although it is a project of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development, she was privately financed. For the purpose of finding sponsors was a tender. In September 2009, the company Mega Poster was awarded the contract.

The central theme of the exhibition of the box is the story of the Berlin Palace and the building of the Humboldt Forum held its groundbreaking ceremony in the summer of 2013. In addition, information displays about the new ideas and interactive exhibition designed concepts that are developed for the Humboldt - Forum. Here, the non-European collection and global issues of cultural and scientific worlds are at the center.

Background

The building, with panoramic terraces and rooftop restaurant is 28 meters high and has an area of 3000 square meters. One floor of the building also serves as the event level. After completion of the Humboldt Forum, the Humboldt - Box is to be dismantled. An exact date for this has not been named, the operator is, however, the year 2019 as probable.

The exhibitions in the Humboldt -Box by the Stiftung Berliner Schloss - Humboldt Forum and the future actors in the Humboldt Forum, the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art, the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Humboldt University and the Central - Berlin library. designed. In addition, the Berlin castle committed eV to promote donations for the production of replicas of the castle facade that should be integrated in the forum.

The implementation of the veiling of the Brandenburg Gate in the year 2000/2002 ( " The Brandenburg Gate ", Jovis Verlag GmbH, pp. 193ff. ) Engaged Megaposter that the tender for the Humboldt-Box won for the first time in restoration funding with the help of large-scale promotions. The restoration of monuments such as the Charlottenburg Gate or the building of the Wannsee beach followed.

At times, the Humboldt-Box was used as a large-format advertising space. Two years after the opening of the Humboldt-Box could of 500,000. Visitors are welcomed.

Criticism

Hermann Parzinger, president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which helped shape the exhibitions in the Humboldt-Box, however, pointed out that "you can finally look like the capital, as it would appear from the Humboldt forum ". From different sides of the height and location are criticized, making the road appear Unter den Linden cordoned off with this construction, the view of the cathedral is partially adjusted. Thomas Flierl, the urban development policy spokesman for the Left Party feared that the box could become a "Monument of failure ", which would serve only to acquisition of donations.

In the Press

• " [ O] n most central point of the city [ was ] a building has been formed whose asymmetric cubature and gaudy turquoise color scheme, although provoked criticism, but will certainly enthusiastically received by the people. "
• " Wonderful Humboldt-Box " was a cover story to the people appreciated the development since the opening.
• " The Box as a Magnet" wrote another newspaper on the occasion of the 250,000 visitor.
• One newspaper called it in a temporary structure that constitutes the " modern form of state failure culture ".
• " Architectural monstrosity in galactic proportions ".