The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is the central place for remembrance and a place of warning. Situated in Berlins city centre, the memorial was built near the Reichstag and the Brandenburger Tor. The decision to build this Memorial was taken by the German parliament on June 25, 1999, when it passed a resolution to realise a design by Peter Eisenman, the internationally renowned New York architect. Eisenmans design envisages a Field of Stelae, 2,711 concrete blocks of different heights, structured in a grid pattern and covering nearly 19,000 m2 of gently sloping ground. Since it is entirely open to all sides, the Memorial can be entered anywhere; but as visitors move through it, the blocks seem to form different wave-like patterns. Peter Eisenman re-worked this extraordinary design a number of times, creating a radical departure from the standard notion of a static memorial. The memorial has a complementary underground Information Centre, similarly designed by Eisenman in an equally impressive style, providing around 800 sq. meters of exhibition space providing background information on the victims and giving details about other historical memorial sites.