Key：Germany | 2000 | Memorial park

项目概况:

the memorial to the murdered jews of europe (holocaust mamorial) with an area of 19000m2 and the cost of approximately €25 million is designed by american architect peter eisenman and located between berlin-brandenburg gate and potsdamer platz. the 2,711 tilting concrete slabs with 2.38m long and 0.95m wide are arranged like the stone forest of tombs on a sloping field, dividing the plot into small space with sense of isolation and clithrophobia, producing an uneasy, confusing atmosphere in the supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. the grids of roads between the concrete slabs with the width of less than 1 meter are paved by the square bricks and create the sense of squeezing by the slabs. an underground information center at the eastern side of the field with four exhibitions houses information about the holocaust of jews. the memorial is controversial. it was described that the abstract form could not clearly convey the mourning for the murdered jews and also criticized for only commemorating the jewish victims of the holocaust. german government stated the completion of the memorial meant not the ending of self-reflection and investigation for holocaust but one kind of expression transferring the experienced war memory into the collective memory through the open art work.