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Museum of Transport Glasgow

Riverside Museum design by Zaha Hadid Architects for Glasgow Council at Kelvinside, west Scotland

updated 26 Jun 2019 + 31 Mar 2016 + 23 Sep 2015 ; 21 Jun 2011

Museum of Transport Glasgow Opening

Address: 100 Pointhouse Place, Glasgow, G3 8RS

photo © Keith Hunter

Phone: 0141 287 2660

photo © Keith Hunter

Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson smashed a ceremonial bottle of champagne on the side of the building, which houses the city’s vast of transport and travel collection.

photos © Keith Hunter

9 Jun 2011

Riverside Museum

photograph : Hawkeye Aerial Photography

Riverside Museum

Riverside Museum Exhibition

photograph © Adrian Welch

Exhibition by Patricia Cain at Kelvingrove Museum dedicated to the construction of the Glasgow Transport Museum.
‘Drawing (on) Riverside’ – 15 Apr – 14 Aug, free exhibition – will showcase around 100 works of drawing, painting and sculpture documenting the different phases of Glasgow Transport Museum construction. 14 Apr 2011

Riverside Museum Photos

Photographs from Sunday of finishng works to the north (entry_facade to the Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid. 3 Apr 2011

photographs © Isabelle Lomholt

Glasgow Transport Museum Photos

Taking advantage of the clear blue skies yesterday new photographs of the Transport Museum looking across the River Clyde from the south. 11 Feb 2011

Supported with the help of CarVeto

Transport building photographs © Adrian Welch

Riverside Museum in Glasgow

Glasgow Museum of Transport – Context
The historical development of the Clyde and the city is a unique legacy; with the site situated where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde the building can flow from the city to the river. In doing so it can symbolise a dynamic relationship where the museum is the voice of both, linking the two sides and allowing the museum to be the transition from one to the other. By doing so the Transport Museum places itself in the very context of its origin and encourages connectivity between its exhibits and their wider context.

The Transport Museum building would be a tunnel-like shed, which is open at opposite ends to the city and the Clyde. In doing so it becomes porous to its context on either side. However, the connection from one to the other is where the building diverts to create a journey away from the external context into the world of the exhibits. Here the interior path becomes a mediator between the city and the river which can either be hermetic or porous depending on the exhibition layout. Thus the Transport Museum positions itself symbolically and functionally as open and fluid with its engagement of context and content.

photographs © Adrian Welch

Riverside Update – 22 Nov 2009

Glasgow Transport Museum Building

Aerial image of riverside building

picture © webbaviation

Glasgow Museum of Transport – News Update – Nov 2008

BAE Systems provide £500,000 taking funds total up to £2m for the £5m appeal. The structure of the Transport building is well progressed with cladding works starting

Further round of value-engineering proposed in council report 5 Sep 2008

New images 16 Nov 2007

Wireframe model views of the Glasgow Transport Museum:

Riverside Museum images © Zaha Hadid Architects

Glasgow Transport Museum Architects : Zaha Hadid

Contemporary Scottish Building design by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) – new images 18 Jan 2007

Aerial view from north ; Aerial view from south; Street view from north ; Side view from west:

Building images © Zaha Hadid Architects 180107

Glasgow Museum of Transport Riverside Project – Building Information

Date: 2004-11
Program: Transport Museum
Client: Glasgow City Council
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
Project director: Jim Heverin
Project architect: Johannes Hoffmann
Project team: Matthias Frei, Agnes Koltay, Malca Mizrahi, Tyen Masten, Gemma Douglas, Johannes Hoffmann, Daniel Baerlaecken, Achim Gergen, Christina Beaumont, Markus Planteau, Claudia Wulf, Alasdair Graham, Rebecca Haines-Gadd, Brandon Buck, Naomi Fritz, Liat Muller, Elke Presser, Hinki Wong, Michael Mader.
Competition team: Malca Mizrahi, Michele Pasca di Magliano, Viviana R. Muscettola, Mariana Ibanez, Larissa Henke
Structural engineer: Buro Happold, London – Wolf Mangelsdorf, Andrew Chan, Franck Robert, Tim Kelly
Services: Buro Happold, Glasgow – Scott Baird, George Reilly
Acoustics: Buro Happold, Bath – Lawrence Hughes
Fire safety: FEDRA, Glasgow – Brian Morrell
Cost consultant: Capita Symonds – Eric Gordon
Project management: Capita Symonds – George Webb, John Jackson

Building: The Transport Museum building is conceived as a sectional extrusion open at opposing ends along a diverted linear path. The cross-sectional outline is a responsive gesture to encapsulating a wave or a ‘pleated’ movement. The outer pleats are enclosed to accommodate the support services and black box exhibits. This leaves the main central space to be column-free and open.

Circulation is through the main exhibition space. Openings are envisaged in the roof and walls as appropriate. It is perceived that there should be views out of the exhibition space. These would allow the visitors to build up a gradual sense of the external context, moving from exhibit to exhibit. All openings would be solar controlled so that total black out could be achieved when required. At the end, with a view of the Clyde and the Kelvin, is the café and corporate entertainment space. These also allow access and overflow into the open courtyard. The end elevation is like the front elevation with an expansive clear glass façade. It has a large overhang to reduce solar exposure to the building interior. It will allow expansive views up and down the Clyde.

Landscape: The landscape is designed to direct the activities surrounding the building. A ring of varying stones slabs creates a shadow path around the building. On the west side the hard surface progresses to a soft landscape of grass to create an informal open courtyard space. A line of trees will be added alongside the existing ferry quay to reduce the exposure of this area to prevailing winds. Along the south side and the east, shallow water pool features are used to give continuity with the river at quay level.

Contemporary Scottish Building on the River Clyde information above from Zaha Hadid Architects 180107

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Glasgow Riverside Museum – new images 20 Nov 2006:

Riverside Museum images © Zaha Hadid Architects

Zaha Hadid Architects won the Glasgow Transport Museum competition

Glasgow Museum of Transport Shortlist

Daniel Libeskind
Foster & Partners
Gareth Hoskins
Grimshaw Architects
Pringle Richards Sharratt
Will Alsop
Zaha Hadid Architects

Riverside Museum, Glasgow
Gareth Hoskins Architects came 2nd and were one of the 3 Transport Museum finalists called for interview

The new Transport Museum Glasgow will be a replacement for the Museum currently located at the Kelvin Hall. It is to be built on a site where the River Clyde meets with Glasgow’s other main river, the River Kelvin, adjacent to Glasgow Harbour.

Councillor Charlie Gordon is reported as stating that he wants to turn the Glasgow Transport Museum into an “even more popular Transport Museum in an iconic building down by the Clyde”. He has achieved his desire for a world – class architect which created controversy earlier this year.

The Glasgow Transport Museum is a key element of the Council’s plans for the continued regeneration of the River Clyde. The existing Transport Museum is one of the best-visited in Scotland, attracting around 400,000 people annually.

A total of 44 architects and designers had expressed an interest in working on the project, with 3 from Scotland. Three architectural practices and two exhibition design teams made it to the Glasgow Transport Museum Shortlist from which Zaha Hadid was selected. The selection process for an architect was assisted by Professor Dugald Cameron, former Principal of Glasgow School of Art.

Zaha Hadid Glasgow
Zaha Hadid has already completed a Scottish building – the Maggies Centre in Kirkcaldy. Hadid has completed other museums including the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Arts in Cincinnati, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Rome and the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg.

Event Communications were selected to assist. Event Communications worked on the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, Our Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh and the National Museum of Dubai.

The Riverside Museum project will be funded by Glasgow City Council, with bids being made for external support to a number of agencies including the Heritage Lottery Fund. Start on site for the Zaha Hadid project is programmed for 2007. It is anticipated that the Glasgow Transport Museum will be open to the public by 2009.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery Building, Glasgow

Zaha Hadid: Museum of Transport Building Archive