Submission: October 28, 2013
Registration: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Location: London, UK
Prizes: £5.000 for each selected team for the stage 2 and comission for the winner
Type: Open competition for architects in two stages.
International design competition launched by The Natural History Museum to find an inspired team to redesign and re-imagine its grounds. The major project will aim to create an innovative exterior setting that matches the architectural excellence of the iconic 19th Century site whilst ensuring that the Museum grounds are easily accessible to all visitors.
Attracting over five million visitors annually, the Natural History Museum is one of the UK’s top visitor attractions and known worldwide as a leader in scientific research, housing over 70 million specimens from around the world. The Museum’s Grade I Listed Waterhouse building is admired worldwide as a model of the Victorians’ passion for celebrating and classifying the natural world. The recent transformation of the Exhibition Road Cultural Quarter has provided further impetus to promote a renewal of the Museum’s own civic realm.
This competition offers the very best of the architectural industry the opportunity to set the Museum in a modern context, so it continues to be one of the UK’s most recognised and admired destinations. It offers the opportunity for a re-think of the civic and public setting of the Museum that will meet modern expectations and equip the Museum for the long term.
The competition is devised and managed by specialist competition organiser Malcolm Reading Consultants, in association with Deloitte, the Museum’s project manager for the redevelopment.
