Island and its that of bringing all of them together quite a difficult task i have to say but i think a gentleman whos not averse to difficult tasks David Chipperfield welcome 1st of all can you tell us a little bit about james cmon that the galleries named after james cmon james simon was a. Very important. Entrepreneur textile business very successful and he became a very generous for entrepreneurs to gave an enormous amount of money to good causes and especially to museums. He had a big collection and he famously financed the egyptian expedition the discovery of the armonica collection and the star of that is is now for t. T. Which is in the noise museum ok well talk more in a minute but lets 1st have a closer look at your brand new work named after james simo. The James Seaman Gallery the stunning combination of Neo Classical and modern architecture will serve as a new Entrance Point to one of the worlds most important repositories of Cultural Treasures carolyns museum island. Desi
a master plan for the island devised by david chipperfield. and approved by the city in 1909 the main purpose of the gallery is servicing and connecting but beyond this it also gives the island a central focus the jane seeman gallery a dazzling you attraction on the unesco world heritage site museum island. let s take up the point of view nasco world heritage site i mean obviously there were restrictions were in the area where you could build but was that also restrictions because of unesco did they have to approve your plans they didn t have to technically approve but they certainly could have made it more difficult if they weren t happy with that. i think the question was was yes it was a restrictive sight physically restrictive in terms of being bounded by the by the cannot physically difficult because of that the water table that the ground