National Maritime Museum in London, United Kingdom

The National Maritime Museum  designed by C. F. Møller Architects & Purcell Miller Tritton is located in London, United Kingdom. This lengthy project was ignited five years ago with a ‘worthy but perhaps rather unexciting’ brief to extend the existing Museum’s archive and retrieval system, and was spurred on by the appointment of Dr Kevin [...]

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Voyager New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland, New Zealand

Designed by Pete Bossley Architects, Voyager New Zealand National Maritime Museum is located in Auckland, New Zealand. The alteration expands the building outwards and upwards, in a series of planes which explode the traditional form of the sheds. To the east an extension pushes over the sea, housing a series of beautiful yachts portraying the [...]

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Jewish Museum in London, United Kingdom

The Jewish Museum designed by Long & Kentish is located in London, United Kingdom. The Jewish Museum London in Camden Town reopened on Tuesday 16th March after a £10 million redevelopment scheme by architects Long & Kentish. Writer, broadcaster and cookery expert Nigella Lawson and one of the museum’s patrons, Alan Yentob (Creative Director of [...]

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The National Maritime Museum by Allies and Morrison Architects, United Kingdom

The National Maritime Museum in London, United Kingdom was designed and completed by Allies and Morrison Architects. The National Maritime Museum represents an ensemble of important historic buildings set within an iconic landscape, the whole comprising the Greenwich World Heritage Site. The project for the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park encompasses the restoration and upgrading [...]

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