20 May 2011

V A V A V O O M

Japanese Practice Kengo Kuma and Associates have unanimously won the highly-contested battle to design the new V&A Museum in Dundee. Beating off competition from an impressive six-strong shortlist, the landmark building is at the forefront of the city’s Waterfront regeneration project and is hoping to replicate Bilbao’s ‘Guggenheim effect’ in Scotland. The stone building takes its elegantly splayed form from the meeting of tourism trade with the city centre, and will seemingly ‘float’ on the banks of the River Tay.  Building will commence in 2012 and the museum is expected to open in 2015.

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