{"id":8106,"date":"2016-12-11T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2016-12-11T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T16:09:36","slug":"london-design-museum-the-new-design-with-ambitious-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brabbu.com\/en\/news-events\/events\/london-design-museum-the-new-design-with-ambitious-agenda","title":{"rendered":"London Design Museum: The New Design With An Ambitious Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a redesign of $102 million, London Design Museum<\/strong> <\/em>opened\u00a0its doors on 24th November. More elegant, this museum has a bold new home, the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington, which until 2002 served as a miniature World\u2019s Fair, promoting trade and cultural exchange among Britain\u2019s former colonies, and three powerful inaugural exhibitions. London Design Museum<\/strong><\/em> has now 108,000 square feet of space, three times as much as its previous.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe thought the time was right to grow the museum, to take it beyond the exclusively design-orientated visitors that we\u2019d had, to really make design part of a wider conversation,\u201d says Deyan Sudjic, the museum\u2019s director. \u201cSo in some ways what Tate Modern did for contemporary art<\/strong>, we are hoping to do for contemporary design and architecture<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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John Pawson<\/strong> was the responsible architectural designer\u00a0for the building\u2019s newly reconfigured interiors, where the Design Museum\u2019s galleries are arranged around a minimal oak- and marble-lined atrium. Pawson also created a standalone shop for the museum.<\/p>\n

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On the top floor, a vibrant, free, permanent display titled \u201cDesigner, User, Maker\u201d employs around 1,000 objects from the collection to examine the life cycle of a design from conception through manufacture to the consumer.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll the floor structure of the building is new, so there was an extraordinary temporary structure holding up this roof while the old structure was knocked out to create the new building,\u201d added Chris Masson of Pawson\u2019s studio. \u201cIt was quite a feat of engineering.\u201d
\nWith a renewed design<\/strong>, the museum is now ready to offer the best of the design world<\/strong> and make visitors say \u201cThat felt good, that looked good. I enjoyed going to this museum.\u201d<\/p>\n

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