Dezeen Wire: David Chipperfield Architects have won the contract to renovate Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum in Berlin – artdaily
The famous glass and steel building housing a collection of 20th century European painting and sculpture will be closed to the public during the extensive renovations, which are scheduled to begin in early 2015.
Chipperfield has worked extensively in Berlin in the past and his restoration of the damaged Neues Museum won the 2011 Mies van der Rohe Award. See our original story on the Neues Museum here and all of our stories about David Chipperfield here.