The Aga Khan Centre at King's Cross, London.
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Paul Baxter explores a new London home for three institutions that melds Islamic influences with the ‘alternative modernism’ of architect Fumihiko Maki. The new Aga Khan Centre is located on the prominent corner of Handyside Street and Lewis Cubitt Park. It brings together three institutions, long-established in London, that are…
Paul Baxter explores a new London home for three institutions that melds Islamic influences with the ‘alternative modernism’ of architect Fumihiko Maki. The new Aga Khan Centre is located on the prominent corner of Handyside Street and Lewis Cubitt Park. It brings together three institutions, long-established in London, that are dedicated to increasing understanding of and promoting scholarship on Muslim cultures and societies: The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Foundation UK.