October 11, 2006

Glass house

A view on the backside of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus. This house is part of the new suite of parliament buildings next to the Reichstag and it hosts offices and some scientific facilities like the library. To create a feeling of transparency for the work of the german parliament (the Bundestag) the architects designed the houses to provide as much insight as possible. That was somehow successful through using all the glass walls.
Although I have to admit that I usually don't see anybody working in there :-)