About David Chipperfield Architects

David Chipperfield Architects was founded in London in 1984. A second office in Berlin was established in 1997 following the appointment for the reconstruction of the Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island and in 2005 a representative office in Shanghai was established. The practice now employs over 100 staff.

David Chipperfield Architects works internationally, particularly in the United States, Asia, Germany, Spain and Italy and has formed partnerships and collaborated with associate consultants all over the world. Their work is for both public and private sector clients encompassing masterplanning and urban design, new build and restoration architecture, interior design and exhibition and product design. The range of work completed by the practice includes museums and galleries, private houses, hotels, offices and retail facilities.

David Chipperfield Architects' museum work ranges from the design of exhibitions within existing museums to expansion projects such as the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, to the design and construction of new museums such as the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, the Literature Museum in Marbach, Germany and The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, UK. Their largest museum expansion project is the reconstruction of the Neues Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island. Appointed in 1997, work on site began in 2003 and the project is due for completion in 2009.

The Neues Museum is a large scale project of approximately 200,000 sq.ft., and the scope of the project includes masterplanning, restoration and the integration of new interventions into the existing fabric of the building. In 1998 David Chipperfield Architects was appointed as lead masterplanner for the Museum Island in Berlin and architect for the New Entrance Building to the Island. The masterplan links the five museums of the Island - the Altes Museum, Neues Museum, National Gallery, Pergamon Museum and Bode Museum, combining the new concept for the presentation of the Archaeological Collections with contemporary museum requirements while preserving the ’campus’ quality of this collection of architectural monuments.

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