Design Museum [warehouse conversion]

Conran & Partners (British architectural firm, founded 1980)
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Design Museum
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/169409
Date
2014-12-22
Description
Overall three-quarter view from Thames waterfront promenade; Run by the Conran Foundation, founded in 1989, it was the first museum in the world devoted exclusively to 20th and 21st century product, industrial, graphic, fashion and architectural design. The building involved a "radical reconstruction" of an undistinguished former 1940s banana warehouse. After the conversion the building resembles the International Modernist style of the 1930s. The museum includes two floors of galleries, a café and shop. It is a private museum operated as a registered charity and not government supported. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/25/2014)
Type of Work
art museum
Subject
architecture, contemporary (1960 to present), decorative arts, architectural reuse, Twentieth century, International Style (modern European architecture style)
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only
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