“Leaving your mark can also be acting responsibly and making contributions to our environment which have not necessarily got great big signatures written all over them.”
– British architect
David Chipperfield, on his firm’s 6-year renovation of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed
Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (due to reopen on Aug 22). “We live in a society that is obsessed with the new,” he tells
Chloe Stead. “I think the next stage of our civilization is going to be defined as much by us knowing how to protect things while we develop.”
