The project is located in one historical district of the urban area of Berlin, where is the north of central park Tiergarten, named as Cultural Plaza. The site besides the New National Gallery designed by Mies von der Rohe and the Berliner Philharmonie designed by Hans Scharoun. Considered the term of Urban planning, the design followed the planning concept in 2005, extend the colonnade which surrounded the Gallery Plaza to the entrance of the new building and redesigned the form of colonnade. Meanwhile the new building completed the urban neighborhood. Therefore the new building represented as a courtyard surrounded by three sides. One of the is designed as the atrium of the whole and arranged with staircase,elevator and platform to satisfy the requirement of vertical communication.the function of the “gallery ” included exhibition hall, archives and library, studio and lecture hall. Hence the new building is defined as a public academic center instead of just a space of store and exhibition.
