Project Turner Contemporary
Design David Chipperfield Architects
Location Margate, UK Turner Contemporary opens
Margate’s Turner Contemporary, the £17.4m gallery dedicated to JMW Turner, opens this month (April). The two storey David Chipperfield-
designed gallery overlooks the sea and has been designed to maximise the quality of light in the area which inspired English artist Turner more than a century ago. Turner Contemporary’s programme
The glass-clad building looks out across Margate’s sandy beach
of exhibitions will display contempo- rary art alongside historical pieces, with a focus on the art, thought and legacy of JMW Turner. The seafront gallery is a central part of plans to regenerate Margate, with new bars, restaurants, cafés and galler- ies planned for the Kent town.
The museum originally opened in 1855
Project Neues Museum Design David Chipperfield Architects Location Berlin, Germany
Berlin Museum secures EU design prize
David Chipperfield Architects’ design for the Neues Museum in Berlin won the 2011 European Union (EU) Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The attraction reopened in 2009 for the first time in 70
years, following the completion of an extensive E212m (£187m) redevelopment project. Originally launched in 1855, the Neues Museum closed in 1939 after extensive bomb damage. David Chipperfield Architects’ renovation of the museum was selected for the award from a shortlist of six.
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Japanese architect Arata Isozaki is responsible for the design
Project Design
Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai Arata Isozaki
Location Pudong, Shanghai Jumeirah launches Pudong hotel
Dubai-based luxury hotel operator Jumeirah Group has com- pleted the soft opening of its first five-star luxury hotel in China at the Himalayas Centre in Pudong, Shanghai. The 401-bedroom Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai fea-
tures four restaurants, a Spa at Jumeirah and a 24-hour fitness centre and indoor swimming pool. The spa will fully open when the hotel is oficially launched
later this year. The hotel also offers a 5,000sq m (53,000sq ft) rooftop Infinity Garden, designed for large outdoor events.
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