Sunday 2 October 2011

A VISIT TO DAVID CHIPPERFIELD'S TURNER CONTEMPORARY IN MARGATE


modernist housing estate in Margate


approaching Turner Contempoary's new building by David Chipperfield




entrance court to Turner Contemporary


lobby in between the entrance and the restaurant...


model of the gallery...


the reception lobby with great concrete beams...




Daniel Buren's 'Borrowing and Multiplying the Landscape', 2011, which kind or echoes Olafur Eliasson's Tate Turbine Hall sunset...


after a great entrance and lobby, anticlimactic floating concrete stairs take you to anticlimactic exhibition rooms...





beautiful Sepake Angiama, Curator of Public Programmes at Turner Contemporary


James Webb, A View of Margate from the Pier, 1869


A View of Margate from the Pier today


and a view of Margate from the end of the pier towards the modernist housing block



and Turneresque sunset....

visit Turner Contemporary's website
David Chipperfield is also designing the new building for the Fundacion Coleccion Jumex in Mexico City, next to the Soumaya museum...

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