The Bundesrat: Portrait of a Building
[Images of the entrance hall]
The fact of the original entrance hall’s walls, pillars and mosaic floor’s having survived quite intact – despite its having been used, after the war, only as a storage space – means that today’s visitor experiences the hall just as it was 100 years ago.
Passing directly through the hall, one arrives at the cloakrooms and other rooms on the same floor. Ascending the staircase, one reaches the passageways leading deeper into the building.
The room is lit by means of a modern translucent ceiling, the structure of which imitates the forms of the original pan ceiling in stucco. The granolithic mosaic floor, with its pattern composed of six rectangular fields, continues the basic decorative motif already established by the mosaic in small paving stones executed on the pavement in front of the building.
Passing directly through the hall, one arrives at the cloakrooms and other rooms on the same floor. Ascending the staircase, one reaches the passageways leading deeper into the building.
The room is lit by means of a modern translucent ceiling, the structure of which imitates the forms of the original pan ceiling in stucco. The granolithic mosaic floor, with its pattern composed of six rectangular fields, continues the basic decorative motif already established by the mosaic in small paving stones executed on the pavement in front of the building.