Neues Museum - Berlin

'Seen today alongside the four other reconstructed museum buildings on the island, Stueler’s Neues Museum is the only structure still ruined from the war – a contrast that demonstrates ideas of history and decay in a compelling and powerful way, although throughout the building the degree of destruction varies greatly' 
'Given this evocative yet inaccessible space, the restoration of the Neues Museum follows a principle of conservation rather than reconstruction – the design gives back only enough context so that the significance of the whole structure and the sequence of spaces contained within it are legible.'

(http://www.dezeen.com/2009/03/04/neues-museum-by-david-chipperfield-architects-and-julian-harrap-architects/)

This Museum not only displays impressive artefacts of Egyptian history but also describes an era of War for Berlin.  This clever, joint purpose of the museum is due to its reconfiguration by David Chipperfield Architects, which ensures that the old and partially destroyed is not restored but preserved in its destructive state to show an aspect of history frozen in time.  Along side this preservation, new materials and designs are built but not to copy or replicate the existing but to display modern ideas and technologies in a confident way which in turn compliments and frames what has been preserved.