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The full-sized car which featured as the 'Durango 95' in A Clockwork Orange. In reality this is actually a real model - the M-505 Adams Brothers Probe 16.
Sadly this was one of the only parts of the exhibition which I found impossible to capture without people in the background!
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A selection of snaps that I took whilst going round the new Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the Design Museum in London.
There's an amazing wealth of artefacts there from across the whole span of Kubrick's moviemaking career. It's slightly surreal to see some of these iconic objects and costumes in person after seeing them in his films for decades.
I'm very glad I booked a slot for when the Design Museum first opened their doors at 10.00am, as it was pretty rammed by the time I was leaving a couple of hours later.
I decided to go in and speed all the way to the end, taking photos first, in reverse order. Then I went through the exhibition again to look at everything properly. Anyone who's followed my photography for any length of time will know that generally I don't like people in my images unless they are the subject, so this backwards approached helped me capture the exhibits in relative solitude!
This building used to be the Commonwealth Institute. It had very interesting displays from around the world - sadly it closed and the building was empty for a long time. It has re-opened as the Design Museum admission to the main galleries is free and it is well worth a visit.
New premises in what used to be the Commonwealth Center. I wrote about it here: medium.com/@fjordaan/londons-new-design-museum-b9f9d1b5c17d
Architects; Original Commonwealth Institute, 1962 Grade II*. RMJM (Robert Mathew & Stirrat Johnson Marshall Partnership).
Upgrading for Design Museum by John Pawson, 2016.
The original hyperbolic paraboloid roof covered with copper still remains the centre of attention, but many internal and external features lost.
The building and luxury accommodation around the original building has not been well received by the architectural world.
Architects; Original Commonwealth Institute, 1962 Grade II*. RMJM (Robert Mathew & Stirrat Johnson Marshall Partnership).
Upgrading for Design Museum by John Pawson, 2016.
The original hyperbolic paraboloid roof covered with copper still remains the centre of attention, but many internal and external features lost.
The building and luxury accommodation around the original building has not been well received by the architectural world.
Here's another shot which I couldn't avoid containing quite a lot of people! Although I did eventually manage to capture a shot which didn't cut any people off with the edge of the frame ...
"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'."
Source: Wikipedia
"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."
Source: Wikipedia