Christo, the artist famous for wrapping the Reichstag in white fabric, plans to build it.
After the final vote in the Bundestag chamber of the Reichstag building, Mrs Merkel expressed confidence in her candidate.
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In 1933, the German parliament building, the Reichstag, was destroyed by fire.
In his redesign of the Reichstag, the seat of German government in Berlin, Foster has carried this out to an extraordinary degree.
In 1930, the National Socialist (Nazi) Party won a stunning election triumph in Germany, becoming the second largest party in the Reichstag, or parliament.
What, though, to call the Reichstag if not, well, the Reichstag?
In 1932, in German elections, the Nazis lost 34 seats and two million votes but still remained the largest party in the Reichstag with 196 seats.
About a month after being appointed chancellor, Hitler used the torching of the Reichstag parliament building blamed on a Dutch communist to strengthen his grip on power.
No other government building in the world, for instance, can boast anything as outright exhilarating as the great inverted cone sheathed in 360 mirrors that floods the Reichstag with daylight.
British architect Lord Norman Foster, who designed London's Gherkin tower and the dome on the Reichstag building in Berlin, described Niemeyer as an "inspiration" who "stood accepted wisdom on its head".
The mood in the chancellor's ultra-modern offices, opposite the reconstructed Reichstag, is a mix of scorn, gloom and outrage at being misunderstood by the world.
He noted that the old Reichstag, heated and cooled by fossil fuels, produced 6, 400 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.
The leadership at once disowned the (powerless) Reichstag's peace resolution of April 1917.
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