A new book on the James-Simon-Galerie, the new entrance building for Museum Island in Berlin, has been published by Buchhandlung Walther König. The building, the first to be built within the World Heritage site in almost 100 years, opens to the public 13 July.
The publication includes an extensive photographic essay by German photographer Thomas Struth alongside a series of essays by Adrian von Buttlar, Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper, Regula Lüscher, Martin Maischberger, Olaf Matthes, Rafael Moneo, Andreas Scholl, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Alexander Schwarz, Heinrich Wefing and Hans Witschurke. It concludes with a conversation between Richard Sennett and David Chipperfield.
The book is available in both English and German.