BERLIN.- The designs for the ‘Tell Halaf Adventure’, executed by the architects neo.studio, have been selected for an award by the Art Directors Club (ADC) in Germany, in the section ‘Communication in Space’. Some 7000 projects were submitted to the 2011 ADC competition overall. During an expedition in the Middle East in 1899, Max Freiherr von Oppenheim (1860-1946), heir to a banking family and diplomat from Cologne, unearthed the remains of a palace dating from the early 1st millennium BCE, on the Tell Halaf mound in what is today north-east Syria. Once the excavations were completed, most of the spectacular finds were brought to Berlin and were not – as originally intended – exhibited on the Museum Island, but were instead placed on display in a renovated machine plant in 1930. During the Second World War an aerial bomb destroyed the private museum and with it the uniq