Comments on: New designs for Turner Contemporary by David Chipperfield Architects

By: William

William — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:41:30 +0000

….Margate that is. Not sure about the building yet.

By: William

William — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:56:22 +0000

It’s looks a bit menacing from where I’m standing. Surely the form of the thing is not right?

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:25:24 +0000

Wow nice building but its the worst idea the corrupt and Incompetent council of thanet has ever come up with. This building repersents every bad discion they have ever made and is just a symbol of the waste of tax payers money that has gone into it. The temperary turner museum that used to be M&S is always empty so i think they should take to hint that no one wants to go and see the displays. I have lived in thanet all my life and it upsets me when i think about all the good times i had in margate when i was a younger and i think that prioty should not be this center that no one in thanet wants (i have not met one person who thinks this is a good idea) but should be invested in Dreamland opening up the margate caves the shell grotto spending some money on the beach and maybe building something that people will actully want to visit. I feel very strongly on this issue aswell as a vast amount of people i know who will back me up on this this. I dont visit margate anymore because their is nothing there and soon there and i will never set foot in this building because it is everything that is wrong with margate.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:07:42 +0000

Very beautiful building- not in keeping with this old seaside town though!
I know that this project is also designed to regenerate the old run down town of margate but by putting an ultra modern building next to a load of run down seaside town houses and fishing boats really isn’t the way forward. Serious reconsidering is needed! I mean come on J.M.W Turner??? He is what made margate so famous! using him in an art gallery in margate…brilliant but not in this building… he was born in 1775…not 2075!!!!!

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:42:09 +0000

I am currently doing a project on margate at UCCA in Canterbury, my work will be exhibited in margate around April 2008. I am trying to prove margate is a possitive place, although the town is extreamly run down, there is still beauty and history there. This new building is suposed to turn Margate into a new and improved attraction, that brings business to the local shops so that they can rejuvenate them and make the town more attractive. The picture of what the building is expected to look like is a lovely piece of arcitecture, but I feel that it has no relevance to Margate it’self and looks completelt out of place. In this setting, with the history sorrounding Margate and the beautiful scenary, I would expect somthing more traditional and simpathetic of the old seaside town. I did not expect this modern monstrosity that will take over the town and defeat the object of what J.M.W Turner was achieving by painting the beatiful sunsets and scenay of Margate.

By: hmmhmm

hmmhmm — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:12:52 +0000

The building is nice, but the reflections on water in the night view are amateur…

By: alfonso

alfonso — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:47:39 +0000

it is beautiful as usual! Chipperfield is great!

By: ELMANCO / Stefano Ricci

ELMANCO / Stefano Ricci — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:06:05 +0000

It looks great!