John Pawson and OMA have completed the Design Museum's new £83-million London home, which is set to open next week at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington.
Dutch architecture practice OMA worked with London firm Allies and Morrison, and Arup engineers to restore the shell of the 1960s Grade II*-listed building in west London ? including its distinctive copper-covered, hyperbolic paraboloid roof.

Architectural designer John Pawson was responsible for the building's newly reconfigured interiors, where the Design Museum's galleries are arranged around a minimal oak- and marble-lined atrium. Pawson also created a standalone shop for the museum.

The new Design Museum will open to the public on 24 November 2016 but held its press preview today and a friends-and-family day offering a first glimpse inside the building last weekend.
"I think its marvellous to have been able to save the building, and have it now as what's going to be a world-class centre for design," said Pawson during the press preview. 
"Having decided that we wanted to keep that extraordinary atrium, [the aim] was for it to make a building that was really wonderful for people as well as objects."

"All the floor structure of the building is new, so there was an extraordinary temporary structure holding up this roof while the old structure was knocked out to create the new building," added Chris Masson of Pawson's studio. "It was quite a feat of ...