Showing posts with label chris fay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chris fay. Show all posts
Monday, 19 December 2011
Talking Cocoon in Kiev (part 2)
Ukrainian agent Faktura continues to impress. I've just received these great articles from local architect/designer magazines - featuring our recent evening presentation on the NHM Darwin Cocoon.
Friday, 9 December 2011
Talking Cocoon in Kiev
The Darwin Centre Cocoon was the focus of an evening presentation by project architect Chris Fay in Kiev, Ukraine in November.
Sponsored by Armourcoat and local agent Fakura, the presentation attracted nearly 300 local architects and designers, who were thrilled to learn more about this original project. This bold £75m extension to London's Natural History Museum by Danish architects C. F. Møller – formally the Darwin Centre Phase Two - represents a stunning new architectural icon for London which is ground breaking in its scale and breath-taking in its technical and creative brilliance.
This landmark design features a vast free standing structure taking the form of an enormous cocoon finished in 3,500m2 of Armourcoat polished plaster. The cocoon houses the world's largest collection of plant and insect specimens, a unique anthology of 17 million insects and 3 million plants collected over the last 300 years by scientists including Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and Sir Hans Sloane. The structure also houses state-of-the-art laboratories for 250 international scientists and an interactive visitor exhibition.
Sponsored by Armourcoat and local agent Fakura, the presentation attracted nearly 300 local architects and designers, who were thrilled to learn more about this original project. This bold £75m extension to London's Natural History Museum by Danish architects C. F. Møller – formally the Darwin Centre Phase Two - represents a stunning new architectural icon for London which is ground breaking in its scale and breath-taking in its technical and creative brilliance.
This landmark design features a vast free standing structure taking the form of an enormous cocoon finished in 3,500m2 of Armourcoat polished plaster. The cocoon houses the world's largest collection of plant and insect specimens, a unique anthology of 17 million insects and 3 million plants collected over the last 300 years by scientists including Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and Sir Hans Sloane. The structure also houses state-of-the-art laboratories for 250 international scientists and an interactive visitor exhibition.
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