Our Reichstag project, which has a very familiar agenda, I'm sure, as a public place where we sought to, in a way, through a process of advocacy, reinterpret the relationship between society and politicians, public space. And maybe its hidden agenda, an energy manifesto something that would be free, completely free of fuel as we know it.

Young Berliners cannot ignore where they come from. Yet, perhaps because the past still rings like a warning and is still physically visible in the topography and architecture of the city today Berlin is striking in its simplicity, its radiant modernity (symbolized by the glass dome of the Reichstag, a conception of the British architect Norman Foster), and, above all, its intensity.