Our Building
The Museum tower
Unusually, both architects and designers were appointed at a very early stage in the project and have worked closely together throughout the development, resulting in a building and exhibitions that are sympathetic to each other's needs, the local environment and marketplace. In an age of near-instant obsolescence, the building is designed to stand for a century or more, without ever needing much more than a good scrub-down now and then.
That has been achieved, in part, through design influenced by the site's past as a boat-building yard, employing long-used and well-proved materials - granite, slate and green oak boarding, clad by master shipwrights, which will weather over the years from glowing gold to soft silver. Even before it left the drawing board, the Royal Fine Art Commission was describing the scheme as "one of the best", which would result in "a building of the highest quality".
From reactions to date, we are sure you will be similarly captivated.
Architects, Design Team Leaders & Contract Administrators
Long & Kentish
Exhibition Designers
Land Design Studios
Structural & Service Engineers
Ove Arup & Partners
Quantity Surveyors
Davis, Langdon & Everest
Project Management
Arup Project Management
Enabling Works - Foundations & extension to sea wall
Alfred McAlpine (Oct 99 - Nov 2000)
Main Building including Museum Square
Interserve (Aug 00 - Oct 02)
Exhibition Fit Out
Scena Productions
