Stephan Braunfels

This project took ten years to come to fruition and opened in late 2002 as one of the largest new museums in Germany.

Peter Schjeldahl, reviewing the Pinakothek der Moderne in the New Yorker (January 13, 2003), wrote: "it is a big but self-effacing, "invisible" building: on the outside, a bland concrete-steel-and-glass shoebox; on the inside, a dream of subtly proportioned, shadowless, sugar-white galleries that branch off from an airy, three-story rotunda.

I gratefully watched colors combust in Kirchners and Noldes under translucent, all-skylight ceilings.

In 1994, Braunfels' design for the 81,000 square meter German Parliament office building -- Paul Löbe Haus—was awarded first prize.

The home of German Parliament's offices and committee chambers opened in 2001 and is one of the most prominent structures in Berlin.