Renovated Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery will open to the public this month following its multi-million pound redevelopment programme. The Heritage Lottery Fund supported project has transformed the former library building next to the Gallery, increasing gallery space by 78%. Designed by leading Belgian architects Robbrecht en Daem (with London practice Witherford Watson Mann Architects), the expanded Whitechapel Gallery provides one of the most exciting new cultural buildings in Europe. Included in the expanded building are new galleries dedicated to presenting collections and new commissions; a permanent gallery and research room for the Whitechapel Gallery’s historic archive, and an Education and Research Tower including study and creative studios.
The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London E1 T. 020 7522 7888
Prada ‘Waist Down’ Exhibition
Miuccia Prada’s travelling exhibition, Waist Down - The Skirt by Miuccia Prada, arrives in Korea on April 25, taking up residence in the malleable Transformer building in Seoul for the next month. The Transformer, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is a single structure with multiple purposes. Designed to be moved with each incarnation the building is covered with a soft outer skin and has four shapes inside, each of which will become the floor as the building moves and its uses evolve over the course of its five-month existence.