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my first visit to the Design Museum in London (Kensington). En route to a business event in the evening, I was hoping to see the Ai Wei Wei exhibition, which turned out to be fully booked, but the permanent display and the general vibe of the architecture and the space was brilliant as well.
"In 1962, the Commonwealth Institute moved to a distinctive copper-roofed building on Kensington High Street, immediately south of Holland Park. The building, designed by Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners (RMJM), was opened on Tuesday, 6 November 1962, by Queen Elizabeth II. It was open to the public and contained a permanent exhibition about the nations of the Commonwealth, which was designed to inform the public 'how the rest of the Commonwealth lives'."
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"In June 2011, Sir Terence Conran donated £17.5 million to enable the [Design] Museum to move in 2016 from the warehouse to a larger site which formerly housed the Commonwealth Institute in west London. This landmark from the 1960s, a Grade II* listed building that had stood vacant for over a decade, was developed by a design team led by John Pawson who made the building fit for a 21st-century museum, whilst at the same time retaining its spatial qualities."
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New premises in what used to be the Commonwealth Center. I wrote about it here: medium.com/@fjordaan/londons-new-design-museum-b9f9d1b5c17d
David Adjaye: Making Memory (Feb-May 2019)
Gwangju River Reading Room
The River Reading Room was a structure that responded to Gwangju’s ten-day pro-democracy uprising in May 1980, which ended in the massacre of hundreds of students and citizens.
A collaboration between Adjaye and the writer Taiye Selasi, the pavilion houses a library of 200 books about histories of social justice and protest, curated by Selasi. The space acts as a public reading room, encouraging the city’s inhabitants to exchange books and ideas related to freedom, democracy, equality and human rights.
[N]ew monuments and memorials by celebrated British-Ghanaian architect, Sir David Adjaye OBE...Discover seven of celebrated British-Ghanaian architect, Sir David Adjaye’s landmark structures through the use of full scale installations, films, exquisite architectural models, rare artefacts that influenced the creative process and more.
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Inside the Design Museum
From a photo. Apparently property redevelopment in Chinese cities is everywhere and the compensation for existing populations is never generous.
China has a long history of human powered mass production of things, eg porcelain. If an item such as a teapot is imperfect the custom is to break off the spout. Here are some of 250,000 such spouts at the exhibition.
Indre By | Bredgade
The Danish Museum of Art & Design is a museum for Danish and international design and crafts.
Spheres exhibition, May 13 - Aug.31, 2016.
Camino del Museo, encontré esta calle peatonal, que resulta que sale en una secuencia de Bridget Jones...
Design Museum opens a major Wes Anderson retrospective from 21st November until 26th July 2026. There is a lot to see, with over two dozen beautifully made items from the films on show. If you love his films, you will certainly love this exhibition.
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