Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem

Project: Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem
Designed by Bracha Chyutin, Michael Chyutin, Jacques Dahan, Ariel Noyman 
Client: The Simon Wiesenthal Center 
Site Area: 8700 m²
Building Area: 15000 m²
Building Scale: Stories above Ground 3, Stories below Ground 2
Max Height: 20 m
Landscape Area: 5000 m²
Location:  Jerusalem, Israel 
Website: www.chyutin.com & www.arielnoyman.com
Museum of tolerance project designed by Bracha Chyutin, Michael Chyutin, Jacques Dahan and Ariel Noyman for a location in the centre of modern Jerusalem. View more of the project after the jump:

From the Architects:

The Museum of Tolerance is located at the heart of modern Jerusalem, in its rejuvenated city center, on the borderline between the spacious Independence Park, and the urban built environment. It is designed as an elongated  structure which traces the southern and eastern borderline of the site. The structure orchestrates the three surrounding streets into a coherent urban space. The building is divided into two horizontal wings: a three floor floating upper wing which hosts the theater and social meeting spaces, and two sunken floors which hosts the museum's exhibition spaces. The entrance floor is located at the level of the public square and hosts a restaurant and gift shop. It is leading up to the floating wing or down to the sunken one. Part of the floating wing is suspended over ground level, creating a gap, a doorway, from the built city to the park.

Source ArchDaily. *