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The Reichstag Dome in Berlin by Foster & Partners
the former home of German democracy, it was gutted by fire, damaged during the second world war and left in run-down state until 1960s, when it was re-opened as conference centre.
In 1992, it was then transformed into home for the unified German Parliament. The design focussed on making it more transparent.
Dome is accessible to the public, offering 360-degree views of central Berlin.
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By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Built 1928-1929, demolished 1930, recently reconstructed.
The building has no real program, it acommodates whatever Mies chose to make of it.
The only function it accommodated was a reception for the King and Queen of Spain as they signed the "Golden Book" official opening of the exposition.
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"Alexander Calder designed this fountain, with actual mercury, for the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris. It was in the entrance hall, opposite Picasso's Guernica, also designed especially for the exhibition. Like Picasso's painting, this sculpture is a political statement, protesting Franco's siege of the Almadén mercury mines during the Spanish Civil War. Today the fountain is housed behind glass at the Fundació Miró."
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