Construction of the Glass Courtyard

For more information on the Glass Courtyard, please visit:
http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/04-About-The-Museum/01-Architecture/03-glasscourtyard.php

The Glass Courtyard at the Jewish Museum Berlin was built by the architect Daniel Libeskind in 2007. The glass roof covers the 670 m² U-shaped courtyard of the baroque Old Building — the former Collegienhaus — and is supported by four freestanding bundles of steel pillars. The structure of a tree was the inspiration for the supporting pillars which extend into the roof forming a steel network. Daniel Libeskind based his design on the Jewish holiday Sukkot, named after the huts the Israelites lived in as they wandered the desert after escaping slavery in Egypt.

Link zur Quelle