White Cube Bermondsey
Commercial Art GalleryLocation: London, UK
Year: 2010-2011
Program: exhibition spaces and private viewing rooms, bookshop, auditorium, offices, workshops, storage spaces
Client: MRJ White Cube, Jay Jopling
Services: RIBA Stages 1-4 equivalent to LP 1-5 HOAI
Status: Completed
Tags: culture, exhibition
Architects:
Casper Mueller Kneer; Team: Jens Casper, Marianne Mueller, Olaf Kneer, Graham Sproul, Aya Okada, Chi Mai Lan, Alessandro Burro, Matthias Grabe, Marian Manten, Michael J Williams, Fabian Neuhaus, Wolfgang Frese.
Consultants:
Structural Engineer: Atelier One, London; Services Engineers: Bob Costello Associates, Stafford; Project Management and Quantity Survey: Millbridge Group, London; Planning Consultants: DP9, London; Acoustic Consultants: BDP, London; Site Support Architects: RHWL, London; CDM Consultants: Goddard Consultants, London; Fire Safety Consultants: Ramboll Safes, London; Main Contractor: Life Build Solutions; Photography: Paul Riddle, London
Awards:
Architizer A+ Awards, Art Galleries category Special Mention 2014;
Civic Trust Award 2013 Commendation for the positive cultural contribution to the local community;
The Architects′ Journal Retrofit Award 2012 - Cultural Buildings Category;
RIBA National Architecture Award 2012;
American Institute of Architects UK Chapter Excellence in Design Awards 2012 Commendation;
The Chicago Atheneum Award 2012;
Bibliography
ARCHITEKTUR BERLIN Bd. 2
Baukultur in und aus der Hauptstadt.
Berlin, Braun Publishing/ Architektenkammer Berlin, Berlin 2013
The RIBA Architecture Awards - Buildings of the Year 2012
featuring White Cube Bermondsey
Tony Chapman, The Royal Institut of British Architects, RIBA publishing 2012
Domusweb
Emilia De Vivo, Alessandra Como: White Cube Bermondsey in London. The Architecture of the Invisible.“The new White Cube Bermondsey is an event: it stands out for its importance within the world art market; it stands out within the urban and district transformation process — with a programme which goes far beyond a commercial gallery can encompass: there’re a bookshop, an auditorium, an archive. It stands out (also) for being an architectural work of singular beauty, designed by the Casper Mueller Kneer Architects based in Berlin and London.”
Domusweb, March 2012
Baumeister B2 2012
Anna Schnabel: Kunst im Quadrat
About White Cube Bermondsey:
„Architektur wird manchmal mit einem Schwan verglichen. Oben gleitet der weisse Vogel elegant und gelassen über das Wasser, während unter der Oberfläche die Beine wild rudern. So erscheinen manche Gebäude auf den ersten Blick ganz einfach...“
München, Callwey, February 2012
Baunetz
Würfel Nummer Drei: Kunstgalerie von Casper Mueller Kneer in London
16.01.20122011
AJ The Architects‘ Journal
James Pallister: Inside the Cube
White Cube Bermondsey, London, by Casper Mueller Kneer Architects
London, The Architects‘ Journal, 08. December 2011
Architecture Today 233 (Cover)
Giles Reid: Disappearing Act - White Cube Bermondsey Street by Casper Mueller Kneer.
„The latest addition to the White Cube stable of galleries is very large indeed, but architect Casper Mueller Kneer has excercised careful control over all the details.“
London, November 2011