The intervention in the south of Holland Park, close to Hyde Park, has not been without controversy. Their proponents compare it with the Tate Gallery when some initially said nobody would cross the river to the south to go to a museum and however the Tate Gallery has finished becoming an engine of regeneration of an area clearly industrialized, characterized by social housing projects. Its proponents believe that the recovery of the Commonwealth Institute will be a tourist attraction and new attractor to the west of London.
The start of construction for which will be the Design Museum, had its kick-off this week when we knew which already has a budget of 80 million pounds. The current building, which has the grade II (2006) as classified by the local administration (remember that a few weeks ago the building of the Lloyd's designed by Richard Rogers got the grade I), was originally designed by the architects Robert Matthew of Johnson-Marshall. The most unique part of building is its copper roof which consists of a hyperbolic paraboloid (done without computers).
The project will be comissioned to two offices, so it will be a choral work, John Pawson has redesigned the interior building and OMA has planned the surrounding residential development. The exterior landscaping that was initially in charge of the group Wet 8, at the moment is in dry dock..
The new facility will open its doors in 2014 and triple the current surface located in a former banana warehouse at Butler's Wharf and they hoped for half a million visitors a year. Ken High Street accentuated its transformation with the new museum which is located close to both the Royal College of Art, where many of Britain's best designers have trained, and the famous South Kensington museums.
Just have to see how they sew the designs of John Pawson and Rem Koolhaas. The reform of a large central reception area, the installation of new galleries for temporary exhibitions, permanent exhibition areas, a large library and a research center funded by the Sackler Foundation and the new residential area by OMA.
