Berlin’s Jewish Museum Expanding

BERLIN (AP).- Berlin’s Jewish Museum says it is expanding to meet increasing demand for research and education. The museum said Tuesday it will group its archives, library and education center under one roof across the street from the zigzag-shaped main building designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. The new building, built in the 19th century as a flower market, will undergo a euro10 million ($12.7 million) renovation under Libeskind’s guidance that is expected to be done by the fall of 2011. [...]

Michael Lee-Chin Crystal Cited as Architectural Marvel

TORONTO.- The book ‘Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives’, names the Royal Ontario Museum’s (ROM) Michael Lee- Chin Crystal, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, as one of the world’s architectural marvels and one of six modern buildings to rival Australia’s Sydney Opera House. Prefaced by famed American author Bill Bryson and published in fall 2009 by Dorling Kindersley (DK) as part of its Eyewitness series, the book praises the highly successful Renaissance ROM project, the Museum’s renovation and [...]