An American architect reached an agreement with Germany regarding a proposed national Holocaust memorial in Berlin. The agreement with Peter Eisenman adds a wall of books and a research center, and reduces the size of Eisenman’s previous large-scale design. The accord, mediated by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, who is now head of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, offers hope that the memorial, which has been mired in controversy for a decade, may soon be built.
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