This sweet little Modernist pavilion is one of their newest constructions: a gallery dedicated to botanical art.
It's the Shirley someone or other Gallery (unfortunately not Shirley Temple. Then it could have been the Shirley Temple Temple). Frivolity aside, it's a rather elegant building -- and it wears its grandeur lightly, eased into its setting, not shouting "look at me".
It reminds me of Maestro Mies' Neue Staatsgalerie in Berlin. And that's high praise indeed.
As befits its purpose, the transparency enables you never to lose touch with the plant life growing outside.
But it's a building that is also instantly readable.
Kew is to be congratulated: it's a delightful addition to the gardens.
What a pity the jets are once again screaming overhead.
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That's a beauty of a building. Elegant, purposeful, just what a Modern building should be.
It unobtrusively fits so nicely within its surroundings.
Very beautiful. Who was the architect?
Apologies, I forgot to credit the architect -- or, in this case, architects: Cindy Walters and Michál Cohen of, er, Walters & Cohen. Most of their work seems to be education buildings, but they also have a portfolio of galleries.
Anyway, I'm glad most people seem to like this gallery as much as me.
It's very beautiful. Reminds me of the Louisiana Modern Art Museum north of Copenhagen, looking over sculpture park to the Baltic and beyond..
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