Construction will begin on Germany’s national Holocaust memorial in September. Speaking at the 21st annual World Congress of Architects in Berlin on July 25, the memorial’s designer, architect Peter Eisenman, said the first step would be to prepare the ground for the 2,700 cement slabs that will stand like a rolling field of gravestones on the site, located between Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and the newly built commercial center of Potsdamer Platz.
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