Category: Planning
Auckland Castle’s Zurburán paintings go on tour as £70m redevelopment begins next month
The paintings have left the castle on only two occasions – to London in 1802 for work on their frames, and in 1995 when they went on display at the National Gallery in London and the Museo del Prado in… Read more
Architects chosen for new Museum of London at West Smithfield
Stanton Williams and Asif Khan working together with conservation architect Julian Harrap and landscape design consultants J&L Gibbons have today been announced as the winners of the Museum of London’s international competition for the new museum at West Smithfield Their… Read more
New Being Brunel museum moves forward with the saving of the engineer’s historic dock office building
Over the past three months, local contractor K P Wilton and Son has undertaken important structural restoration, including specialist joinery work on the building’s historic windows. This work has been funded thanks to a £117,180 grant from AIM Biffa Award… Read more
Demolition starts in preparation for new £7m Being Brunel museum
Being Brunel is a major new museum and visitor experience that will be a national centre of expertise in the life and works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, situated opposite his great ship ss Great Britain. Demolition of… Read more
Museum of London launches architectural competition to transform new home at Smithfield Market
A two-stage architectural competition for a new Museum of London will get underway in February for a new museum, supported by the Mayor of London, with the winner to be announced in the summer. The site at… Read more
Two new buildings to open in 2015 at Blists Hill Victorian Town
Blists Hill Victorian Town, one of Shropshire’s 10 Ironbridge Gorge Museums, is adding two new buildings to its ever expanding site in 2015… Read more