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dRMM wins Brunel Museum design competition
The design competition for the development of the Brunel Museum in Southwark, London has been won by London-based de Rijke Marsh Morgan Architects (dRMM).
The focus of the brief was to make the attraction’s 15m-diameter vent shaft and former stairwell to the Thames Tunnel accessible again since its closure in 1865.
Alex de Rijke, director at dRMM, said: “Our proposal consists of several ambitious site-specific responses, inspired by the Brunel legacy of inventive lateral design.”
The firm beat off competition from Mataphorm, FAT, Softroom, Ash Sakula and Brisac Gonzalez.
The plans include improvements to the surrounding public realm, building a spiral cylinder in the airspace above the subterranean shaft as a new museum space and providing a suspended mobile platform as a programmable public access staging to all levels.
The project is expected to be completed in time for the 2012 Olympics.
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