Luneburg University’s Libeskind Luneburg University’s Libeskind Building / Daniel Libeskind Germany’s Lüneburg university wants to reinvent itself as an elite academic institution and is looking to generate buzz with a huge new building designed by star US architect Daniel Libeskind. Students and local politicians have criticized the ambitious plans, but construction is going ahead, now that funding has finally been secured. More images and description after the break. Big names get the general public’s attention — that’s something the administrators at Lüneburg University near Hamburg know well. In the past, former US President Jimmy Carter and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have both made appearances on the campus. But the biggest name in Lüneburg right now is that of star architect Daniel Libeskind. The 64-year-old American architect, who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin and has been involved in rebuilding the World Trade Center in New York, gives lectures at the institution as a part-time professor. He is also behind plans for the futuristic new central building at the university, which looks set to go ahead after the university administration announced funding plans earlier this week. Salar
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:00:02 +0000
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