Problem
The Dulwich Art Gallery has done what I think all new architecture plans should do. They have run a competition with half a dozen or more designs by various professional and amateur or student groups submitting 3D models and then let the public choose the best.
You can walk along a glass-sided gallery without going into the main exhibition, in the big old building, which was pricey, costing us the best part of £20 for two, even with concessions for age.
Most were decidedly modern. But some were unsettling.
I liked three of the designs which were colourful and curved. They would all have been great as freestanding buildings.
However, two of them dwarfed and distracted from and hid the historic old art gallery building. So that eliminated them. I was left with one which would have got my vote.
None of them managed to echo the original building. The current modern building houssing the cafe looks decidedly odd. You sit in a a modern buidling, looking at an old building. I felt both of them detracted from the enjoyment of the other.
If you hate old buildigns, and would like a modern design to hide the historic buidling, you could choose one which does just that. You can go online and register your vote. Your chance to influence a London building of the future.
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
The Dulwich Art Gallery has done what I think all new architecture plans should do. They have run a competition with half a dozen or more designs by various professional and amateur or student groups submitting 3D models and then let the public choose the best.
You can walk along a glass-sided gallery without going into the main exhibition, in the big old building, which was pricey, costing us the best part of £20 for two, even with concessions for age.
Most were decidedly modern. But some were unsettling.
I liked three of the designs which were colourful and curved. They would all have been great as freestanding buildings.
However, two of them dwarfed and distracted from and hid the historic old art gallery building. So that eliminated them. I was left with one which would have got my vote.
None of them managed to echo the original building. The current modern building houssing the cafe looks decidedly odd. You sit in a a modern buidling, looking at an old building. I felt both of them detracted from the enjoyment of the other.
If you hate old buildigns, and would like a modern design to hide the historic buidling, you could choose one which does just that. You can go online and register your vote. Your chance to influence a London building of the future.
Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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