DESIGN DEBACLES

Since relocating to Berlin a year ago, the German government has planned several major cultural projects commemorating the Holocaust and Germany’s lost Jews. But most of the them are plagued by delays and red tape. “As things stand, the so-called triangle of major new Jewish projects form a bizarre picture: a building without an exhibition (the Jewish Museum), an exhibition without a building (the Topography of Terror site at the former SS headquarters) and an embarrassingly vacant central lot (the numbingly debated Holocaust Memorial).” New York Times