“Eisenman hoped the 34-story Max Reinhardt House would replace the Brandenburg Gate as the symbol of Germany’s once-and-future capital in the 21st Century. “Every city needs an Eiffel Tower,” he said, defending the much disputed building, which actually looks more like a deformed Arc de Triomphe–an apt, if highly discomfiting image for a unified Germany re-emerging from the divisions that followed World War II.”
“Eisenman loosely based the Berlin building on the form of a Moebius strip, a contorted surface with only one side devised by German mathematician August Moebius. Clad in a kaleidoscopic blend of smoky and reflective gray glass, the outcome is a tortured work with a price tag estimated by the architect at $200 million. Eisenman, prone to seeking out esoteric rationale for his designs, once derived another project from the shape of a Boolean cube, a mathematical model used in artificial intelligence, and proposed a biological lab center that would take its form from the structure of DNA.”
“Realization of the architectural project appears likely to take much longer, if it happens at all. It was backed by Frankfurt developer and art patron Dieter Bock”
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-03-29/entertainment/ca-16651_1_max-reinhardt
The enigmatic Bock died in 2010 as the result of a “bizarre accident” after successfully seeing off tiny Rowland from Lonrho. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/jun/09/dieter-bock-obituary
Professor George Lees maintains Bock’s death is highly suspicious.
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