Haworth provides seating for Glass Courtyard of Jewish Museum in Berlin

Berlin, October 12th

With the Italian designed DSC Axis Haworth provided seating for 500 people. They will be used around year to hold events such as educational workshops, concerts, theatrical performances, and receptions in the courtyard of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany. September 25th, 2007, the new venue was opened during a main event with guests from politics, business and culture like the historian Götz Aly or the German actress Iris Berben. The new room is located just a few steps away from the main entrance and its existing infrastructure including cloakrooms, cash desks, and the Museum restaurant.

The new Glass Courtyard at the Jewish Museum Berlin was build from the design entitled "Sukkah" (Hebrew for tabernacle) by the architect Daniel Libeskind. The glass roof, which will cover the 670 m² u-shaped courtyard of the baroque Old Building, the former Collegienhaus, is supported by four freestanding bundles of steel pillars. The structure of a tree was the inspiration for the construction of supporting pillars which extend into the roof forming a steel network. Thus Daniel Libeskind seizes an important image in Judaism, namely the "Sukkot" Feast of Tabernacles named after the huts the Israelites lived in as they wandered the desert after escaping slavery in Egypt on their way to the Promised Land. A glass facade, of which a wide section can be opened at ground level, looks onto the spacious Museum Garden.

© Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo small: Jens Ziehe