Merging Historic with Contemporary

Sant Fransesc Church (Santpedor, Spain)

Museum of Military History (Dresden, Germany)

The Bundeswehr Military History Museum is the military museum of the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, and one of the major military history museums in Germany. Using the design of architect Daniel Libeskind, the Neo-Classicist facade on the historic building has been interrupted and contrasted against with the deconstructivism architectural style. The architect uses this glass structure to break it up and add interest to the classical building. In this way he merges the historic ad contemporary style.

The Sant Francesc convent, located in the small Catalan town of Santpedor, was built in the early 18th century by Franciscan priests. The church got renovated and had contemporary elements added to the historic church , which add contrast and a sense of youth to the church.

The Elbphilharmonie iis a concert hall in the HafenCity quarter of Hamburg, Germany, on the Grasbrook peninsula of the Elbe River. The architects built the building in a Modern architecture and Postmodern Architecture style. I like the building in the way the modern glass façade is placed onto the old warehouse looking building , with the contrast being vertical unlike the usual horizontal, with the juxtaposition happening in the middle of the building.