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.
Not exact matches
This historic bed and breakfast gets its name from the
original building that stood on the property, which was used to
store gunpowder for the Spanish soldiers at the nearby fort.
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.