| Building on the Past – I.M. Pei and the Royal Armoury, 2004 |  Written & directed by Jeremy J.P.  Film editing: Markus Aha  Fekete  Music: Kris Steininger  Producer: Jörg Schulze  Floor manager: Christian Bestmann  Executive producer: Georg Ilse  Production manager rbb: Rainer Baumert  Camera: Kai Rostásy bvk  Editor rbb arte: Sören Schumann Diagonally opposite the Berlin City Palace on the "Unter den Linden" boulevard, a pompous baroque building was erected at great expense in 1695: the Armoury. It was used exclusively as the imperial weapons arsenal and was designed to make sure everybody noticed how big it was. In spite of all its ornamentation the building appeared too modern to many critics of the day, who claimed that it did not fit in to the cityscape. This film by Jeremy J.P. Fekete in the ARTE series "Building on the Past" illustrates the phenomenon by with the successful symbiosis of the armoury and the Pei building.