OPA! Architecture Research Studies - The V & A Design Extension.

OPA! Optical Perspective Architecture, is the architecture design discipline of @projections the architecture design discipline practice responsible for
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OPA! Architecture Research Studies, is a series of posts that share with @projections followers information about the architecture designs that influence the works of OPA!

OPA! Architecture Research Studies - The V&A Design extension.

Placed within the greatest art galeries of the World, like Le Louvre - Paris,
The Guggenheim - New York City, The Berlinische Galerie - Berlim,
The Museum of Modern Art - MOMA - Sao Paulo, The Art Gallery of Alberta - Edmonton,
The Dancing House Gallery - Prague, The Museum of Contemporary Art - MCA - Sydney,
The V & A - The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has been the subject of an ambitious programme of design development that's include a series of extensions, new galleries and visitor facilities, improving access and allowing it's collections to be more elegantly and intelligently displayed.

Recently it was completed The V&A Public Courtyard and the new museum entrance, an architectural design intervention by the British and the RIBA Stirling Prize-winner architect Amanda Levete studio AL_A.

Amanada Levete was once the wife and Partner Director of Future Systems - Great Britain avant-garde, amorphous, bionic architecture practice of organic forms, lead by the greatest Jan Kaplický the relentlessly architect who was constantly in the search of architecture new forms, an architect who refuse to settle into some predictable, and comfortable, architectural style.

Jan Kaplický (right) in his studio in Prague in a presentation of his (unbuilt) Green Skyscraper model design.

Jan Kaplický was not only an architecture designer, he also designed solar powered vehicles, electric cars, jewellery, bikinis and double-decker buses.

After working with Denys Lasdun, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, and Richard Rogers he founded with David Nixon the Future Systems in 1979.

Future Systems, elegant structure form of the Ferrari Museum - Modena - Italy
After Jan Kaplický passes away in January 2009 , Amanda Levete founded her own practice AL_A, which continuous with the edge, elegant and inspiring design architecture of today.

The V&A, AL_A design, has been one of seven shortlisted architectural teams, selected from over 110 expressions of interest from architecture practices from all over the world for the new courtyard, entrance and exhibition gallery design competition.

The design is a 6,360m² of work space intervention, featuring 11,000 pieces of handmade porcelain tiles, a £54.5m Exhibition Road Quarter buried deep underground, and 1,100 square meter gallery space.

A true example of design harmony, the right partnership between architecture & engineering, and the classic architecture of the original design and it's contemporary intervention which together with the Tate Modern puts London as the center of the Art World which offers artists and exhibition visitors an outstanding space to experience.

When in London for a holiday add V&A in your list of places to visit.
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