1971 – Ulster Museum, Belfast, Co. Antrim
Architect: James Cumming Wynnes / Francis Pym
In 1913, a competition was held to design a new building to house the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery’s expanding collections.
In 1913, a competition was held to design a new building to house the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery’s expanding collections.
It’s Belfast’s Busaras, the building architects love and the locals love to hate. Perhaps it’s because the raw-boned Ulster Museum eschews the reassuring emotional associations of imperial grandeur attached to City Hall and the distant classicism of Stormont in favour of a more radical vision –