London's Victoria & Albert Museum unveiled the anticipated design plans for the V&A East project in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Scheduled to open in 2023 as part of the £1.1 billion East Bank development, the project comprises of two interconnected sites: a new 5-story museum at Stratford Waterfront designed by Dublin-based O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects, and the new Here East collection and research center designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with support from British architecture firm Austin-Smith:Lord.
V&A collection and research center at Here East
The Here East research center will house a boastful collection of 250,000 objects and 917 archives from the V&A, some of which will be showcased to the public for the first time in generations inside the center's public collection hall. The collection includes Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1930s plywood-interior office he designed for Edgar J. Kaufmann; a 15th-century marquetry ceiling from the now-destroyed Altamira Palace near Toledo in Spain; and a rotating display of rarely-seen large rolled objects from the V&A’s expansive textiles collection.
The Here East center will have spaces for pop-up displays, workshops, performances, and screenings, and will also be the new home of the Clothworkers’ Centre for the Study and Conservation of Textiles and Fashion. Visitors will get a behind-the-scenes look at the V&A's work in art conservation, research, and exhibition preparation.
V&A Museum at Stratford Waterfront
A ten-minute walk at Stratford Waterfront, the V&A will have a new 5-story museum designed by O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects. Providing contemporary and cross-cultural perspectives, the museum will feature two galleries showcasing a full range of the V&A's collections as well as a program of major exhibitions, installations, and interdisciplinary projects. The building will also host a new gallery that the V&A and Smithsonian Institution will jointly curate. Both institutions will co-curate the museum's inaugural exhibition, opening in 2023.
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Interesting how the Here East is able to re-display and incorporate these masterful pieces from existing buildings. It would have been so much easier just to knock those things down rather than try to integrate them into a new building. #FOLKmoma
I sincerely admire your persistence!
I'll take it to my grave. My husband had dinner with MOMA's Curator of Design and Architecture last week; he texted me to tell me so and I was like "Big whoop. I'll be interested in what that guy is doing *after* he leaves MOMA and not a day before."
where are all these museums getting their cash these days? It's good that the arts flourish but a few crumbs for the homeless would be OK too :(
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