Category: design

  • Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

    Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

    This museum is the most unexpected place I visited in the Museumpark area. See earlier posts here and here about this area of Rotterdam. This is not a destination museum for me as I (Chris) have not heard of it before. The entrance courtyard is stunning  – boldly marked by zebra stripes producing an optical effect.…

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  • Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow

    Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow

    We spent only two days in Glasgow – clearly not enough. But we nevertheless managed to visit the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. It has been one of Scotland’s most popular visitor attractions since it reopened in 2006 after a three-year refurbishment. The gallery first opened in 1901. The scope of its collection is wide ranging,…

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  • The Police Married Quarters 元創方, Hong Kong

    The Police Married Quarters 元創方, Hong Kong

    … almost forgot about this post which we wrote earlier in the year. We visited The former Hollywood Road Police Married Quarters, now renamed PMQ 元創方 in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong earlier this year. The buildings and grounds have been turned into a landmark for the creative industries. It is truly a great place to wander…

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  • Alexander Girard at Vitra Design Museum

    Alexander Girard at Vitra Design Museum

    This is the third post on what we saw at the Vitra Campus. The Vitra Design Museum is one of the publicly accessible building on the Campus. A major retrospective – “Alexander Girard – A Designer’s Universe” was installed when we visited. Much of what is written below came from their web site which is…

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  • VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein

    VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein

    VitraHaus is Vitra’s flagship store on the Campus. One can see, touch, compare, test, and buy all of Vitra’s home and office furniture offerings here. We visited the Campus last year and this is the second of four posts. See the Campus overview here. Most of what is written below came from their web site…

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  • Objection! Protest by Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

    Objection! Protest by Design at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

    IT and I visited the Vitra Design Museum at Weil am Rhein in April 2016. It is a beautiful, well-designed (duh), starchitect-built campus – more about this place in future posts. From 26.02 – 29.05.2016, in a free-standing gallery next to the museum,  the exhibition titled “Objection! Protest by Design” was held. The exhibition presented a…

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