…"The goal was to come up with a satisfying visual whole that would remain everywhere legible and honest. Honest in that the new parts should look clearly new, the old, old, while the two go together gracefully. Concrete, wood, metal and recycled bricks, often covered with slurry so the original fragments blend more seamlessly in with what’s new, provide a subtle, muted palette for the modern interventions...
…Mr. Chipperfield’s museum is instead a modern building that inhabits the ghost of an old one. It’s a patchwork of vestigial shards, whose organization is the consequence of all those millions of decisions — decisions that in one respect should never have been the responsibility of any architect, since in this city historic preservation, especially with such freighted monuments, is always a matter of German responsibility and national identity, no less than a matter of esthetics...