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            The Dutch embassy in Berlin was designed by Rem Koolhaas and his OMA Studio in 1997 after winning a competition to build it.

After the destruction of the former embassy during the Second World War and after the fall of the wall, building a new diplomatic headquarters in the city for the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs was a great step. The choice of the site along the river Spree, with the intention to emulate the typical landscape and canals of Holland, are a representation of the care with which this work has been done. It is said that with this work, Koolhaas completed sealing the role of architectural chancellor of his country.

In 2005, the Dutch “Mies van der Rohe” won the Prize for Contemporary Architecture of the European Union, displaying a total of 242 projects. Among the 5 finalists were included the Stade Municipal de Braga, project Soto de Moura, the Swiss Re headquarters in London, Norman Foster, the department stores Selfridges & Co. in Birmingham, Jan Kaplicky and the esplanade and photovoltaic plant Forum 2004 in Barcelona, Spain, Lapeña Martinez and Torres Tur.

The jury, among whom was the renowned architect Zaha Hadid, awarded the work to whomever highlighted the close relationship with the environment and the reconceptualization of the notion of an embassy. Koolhaas emphasized that “it is not a spectacular project, but modest, severe, that departs from the assumption that the Netherlands has traditionally been a peaceful country that has lived with the agony of war throughout its history, and now established its embassy in Berlin, a Berlin city so mired in war.” Koolhaas said that “the rigidity of the urban planning authorities of the former West Berlin, would have left the project in a typical neighborhood of embassies, and instead we were fortunate enough to find a depressing, yet full of melancholy site in the former GDR. The perpetrators of the former East Berlin were open to the proposal.

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