Carmody Groarke has completed the Windermere Jetty museum in England's Lake District, which houses a collection of boats in a lake-side cluster of copper-clad buildings.
The London studio headed by Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke, designed the Windermere Jetty museum to accommodate an internationally significant display of boats, including motorboats, steam launches and yachts.

Carmody Groarke designed the facility for local charity Lakeland Arts as the evolution of a smaller museum that opened in 1977 to house a private collection.
The museum repurposes a site that was previously occupied by a gravel-extraction plant. Its location on the outskirts of the town offers some of the best views of the lake, which are framed by large openings in the metal structures.
The architecture studio was keen to retain some of the site's working background when developing a proposal for a facility, which also includes areas dedicated to the conservation of the boats.
The museum comprises an ensemble of compact structures placed within a natural setting that aims to immerse visitors in the landscape and bring them as close as possible to the water and the boats.

"Working closely with Lakeland Arts and museum stakeholders, we wanted to create a museum whose design would make a connection between people, boats and water, and which would also reinterpret the site's industrial and picturesque heritage," explained Andy Groarke.
"Our ambition is that the new museum will frame v...