Interior Design

Posted: 08/01/2011

Racing bikes ride a track looping above the main hall of Zaha Hadid Architects’s Riverside Museum in Glasgow. Photography: Iwan Baan.

Racing bikes ride a track looping above the main hall of Zaha Hadid Architects’s Riverside Museum in Glasgow. Photography: Iwan Baan.

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Poetry in Motion

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Zaha Hadid's Riverside Museum, Glasgow, is truly transporting.
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Racing bikes ride a track looping above the main hall of Zaha Hadid Architects’s Riverside Museum in Glasgow. Photography: Iwan Baan.

Cold-cathode lighting is embedded in the glass-reinforced gypsum canopy above South African Railways locomotives and a tram, all manufactured in Glasgow. Photography: Iwan Baan.

Zinc, seamed and unseamed, distinguishes the front facade. Photography: Hufton + Crow.

Plinths raise exhibits above the concrete floor. Photography: Iwan Baan.

The roof peaks at 85 feet high. Photography: Hufton + Crow.

An 1896 tall ship, the Glenlee, is moored in the River Clyde where it intersects with the Kelvin to define the museum’s 6-acre site. Photography: Iwan Baan.

In the main hall, a Bentley sits near a Glasgow-built fire engine. Its ladder extends toward a catwalk. Photography: Luke Hayes/Photofoyer.

The city-facing facade recalls Glaswegian industrial sheds. Photography: Hufton + Crow.

The cladding comprises 24,000 panels. Photography: Hélène Binet.

Structural mullions support the riverfront curtain wall as well as the roof. Photography: Alan McAteer.

Cars are displayed on cantilevered shelves. Photography: Alan McAteer.

The compound curves of the ceiling enable an unsupported span of 260 feet. Photography: Iwan Baan.

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