image courtesy of the design museum london

 

 

zaha hadid has purchased the former home of the design museum at the shad thames to house her archive as well as host architectural exhibitions for a cool £10 million. although the building was put up for sale in october 2011, the design museum will reportedly operate in the historic riverside location until 2015. the crisp white building was a 1940’s era banana warehouse on the southbank of the river thames. the industrial tectonics were reimagined in international style modernism principally by terence conran of conran group fame.

 

deyan sudjic, director of the design museum  has said: 

 

‘whilst we are sad to be leaving shad thames we are leaving the building in the best possible hands, the sale is a significant moment in the museum’s relocation plans and a substantial contribution towards our new home.’