The Berlin Wall, which stood between 1961 to 1989, came to symbolize the ‘Iron Curtain’ – the ideological split between East and West – that existed across Europe and between the two superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union, and their allies, during the Cold War. This fragment of the wall has history written, and actually painted, all over it, with a mural by French artist, Thierry Noir. Placing the wall on display while protecting it was very important; an all-glass enclosure with a sloping steel plate roof was designed with that in mind, but also with the goal of keeping the display as uncomplicated and as elegantly thin as possible. Crisp lines and hidden connections are key to achieving this slender design which almost disappears to give presence to the Wall.
