Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage in Illinois, United States
The Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage designed by Gensler is located in Illinois, United States. Yesterday, Gensler unveiled its design for the Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage, which is slated to open in Momence, IL, in 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond movie, Dr. No. The 14,000 sq ft museum will house the exclusive collection of the Ian Fleming Foundation, including the world’s largest collection of vehicles used in Bond films. A partnership between the Ian Fleming Foundation, the Kankakee County Museum and the City of Momence, this Gensler-designed museum will also feature cultural artifacts of espionage with exhibits exploring contemporary culture’s impact on the Bond films as well as Bond’s influence on popular culture.
With a limited budget, Gensler focused on a single bold design move to make a statement against a simple backdrop. The result is the ‘007’ window (named so because the window’s angled jamb resembles a ‘7’), located at the building’s prominent corner. The window does quadruple-duty, providing exhibit display space, signage, a day lit interior, and an iconic backdrop for photographs.
Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage Design Architechture Plan 1
Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage Design Architechture Plan 2
Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage Design Architechture Plan 3
Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage Design by Gensler
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Ian Fleming had a passionate loathing for modern architecture, describing some of Corbusier’s blocks of flats as looking like an up turned packet of cigarettes, even naming one of his villains after Erno Goldfinger, so I can’t imagine he would be too pleased with this number.
In a sense that is neither here nor there Ken Adam’s set designs from the movies have done a lot to promote interesting modern architecture, but unfortunately this looks more like the disused bauxite mine from Dr No, or for that matter the seventies cheapo architecture of the suburban high school I attended outside of Toronto, (Humberview S.S. if you want to check).
I appreciate of course that there may be a need to keep costs down but there must be something more interesting they could come up with than making one corner of a window at a bit of an angle… For example why not make the front of an old or ordinary building and have it all modern concrete and under-lighting inside to get that behind-the-world-you-know-is-James-Bond’s-feeling… Even a simple concrete box with 007 imprinted in the side’d do, a bunch of Quonset huts would be better than this, it would at least be more ‘Bondian’.