Wowereit added that the project is meant to teach them about that time in history and to encourage them to break down walls and barriers wherever they may be.
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Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt, discussed the decision to shut downtheproject at a May conference.
If designers have only their drawings or photographs of a real prototype to show, it will hopefully give backers a better idea of how far downthe road theproject is and whether theproject owner really has the skill to pull it off.