In 2013 the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, with an extension designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, was opened to the public, giving new life to The Magazine, a Grade II * listed former gunpowder store built in 1805. (en.wikipedia.org)
Zaha Hadid's # 14.5 m extension to a listed early - 19th century gunpowder store in Kensington Gardens opens to the public on Saturday. (theguardian.com)
This element of the installation is an exciting and somewhat subversive reference to the renovation of the space into a gallery, highlighting as it does the hybridisation of styles that the Serpentine Sackler itself displays: the original gunpowder store's red - brick functionality, with its classicised facade, and the organic white plastic and glass extension attached to its left side by Zaha Hadid Architects, 208 years later. (studiointernational.com)