Sentences with phrase «gunpowder store with»

The Gallery, opened in 2013, is housed in a former early 19th century gunpowder store with an impressive expansion, designed by Iraqi - born British architect Zaha Hadid.

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The original, early 19th - century brick building, formerly a gunpowder store, was transformed by Zaha Hadid Architects with the addition of a new tensile structure, creating a combination of old and contemporary architecture.

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.

The entire gallery, previously a 19th - century gunpowder store, reverberates with the film's soundtrack: music as diverse as Bach's Erbarme Dich and Randy Newman's I think It's Going to Rain Today, along with swearing, shouting and exaggerated sounds of drinks being put down and cigarettes being rolled — noises of everyday life writ large.

Coton Tige (2015), a cotton cloud pierced with wooden stakes, was made in response to the site and in particular to the history of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, which was built in 1805, and was originally designed as a munitions store for the safe - keeping of gunpowder during the Napoleonic wars.

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.

The trick with gunpowder is storing it.