Riverside Museum in Glasgow, United Kingdom

June 15, 2011 Category: Cultural, Public Buildings

Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, Riverside Museum is located in Glasgow, United Kingdom. As home to the city’s transport, engineering and shipbuilding legacy, it’s fitting that the new museum (literally) rises to the occasion as a hub for one of the most important – and best loved by many locals – municipal collections of this ‘Second City of the Empire’. With the glazed peaks of its huge vertical gables glinting and gleaming when the sun manages to make a brief appearance out of the charcoal grey sky, the new museum emerges from its still slightly blighted post-industrial waterfront setting like a Koh-I-Noor in the rough. Indeed it’s hoped that the building will have a rejuvenating effect on the stop-start regeneration of this area of the Clyde Waterfront, which is a big ask for a cultural building. But if any can pull to off, it’s this.

Riverside Museum design by Zaha Hadid Architects

Riverside Museum design exterior 1

Riverside Museum design exterior 2

Riverside Museum design exterior 3

Riverside Museum design exterior roof

Riverside Museum design interior

Tags: Architecture, Culture in Glasgow, Deconstructivism, Glasgow, Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth, river Clyde, Riverside Museum, Scotland, Subdivisions of Scotland, United Kingdom, Zaha Hadid