River and Rowing Museum

We called in rather briefly on the River and Rowing Museum on the banks of the Thames in Henley as an early project by David Chipperfield (it opened in 1998).   As a building, it’s worn well:  a modern version of a traditional barn form, built out of oak.   It’s odd to think that it’s one of a relatively small number of projects which he did in the UK in the 1990s at the height of the lottery boom:-

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