Within the shell of an abandoned bank building, Ricardo Carvalho + Joana Vilhena creates a raw but sophisticated home for Lisbons Museum of Design and Fashion

摘要

Lisbon's Museum of Design and Fashion (MUDE) occupies the scene of a crime, the ruins of a protected historic bank interior. In 2003, new owners of the 1950s building in the heart of the old city began an illegal demolition that was interrupted only by a tardy court order. In their temporary installation of the museum in the bank, bought by the city last year as MUDE's home, local architects Joana Vilhena and Ricardo Carvalho have left the interior in the rough state they found it, with walls, columns, and ceilings stripped of finishes.