The Bauwelt Berlin Annual documents the architectural transformation of the two former half-cities into the new German capital in six volumes. The newest volume in the series presents the city's most important architectural events and topics in 1997.
Prominent buildings continue to rise in Berlin's center.
Last year's highlights included works by Jean Nouvel, Mathias Ungers, Ieoh Ming Pei, Dominique Perrault, Josef Paul Kleihues and many more. The 1997 volume documents, among others, the work of Renzo Piano and Arata Isozaki at the bow of Potsdamer Platz, Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum, Sir Norman Foster's new dome for the Reichstag and the completed city complexes of Philip Johnson and Aldo Rossi.