This month London's Design Museum will officially open its new home on Kensington High Street. The project, which has been redeveloped and designed in collaboration with Rotterdam-based practice OMA and London-based studio Allies & Morrison, has seen a Grade II* Listed Modernist monument sensitively restored into contemporary galleries. For John Pawson?who has been commissioned to create "a series of calm, atmospheric spaces" ordered around a large, oak-lined atrium?this scheme marks his first major public work. 

Pawson's sketch of the new London Design Museum

This month London's Design Museum will officially open its new home on Kensington High Street. The project, which has been redeveloped and designed in collaboration with Rotterdam-based practice OMA and London-based studio Allies & Morrison, has seen a Grade II* Listed Modernist monument sensitively restored into contemporary galleries. For John Pawson?who has been commissioned to create "a series of calm, atmospheric spaces" ordered around a large, oak-lined atrium?this scheme marks his first major public work. 
© Gareth Gardner

According to the Design Museum's own narrative of the spaces, "visitors [will] find themselves in a central atrium with striking views up to [an] iconic hyperbolic paraboloid roof." Here galleries, learning spaces, a cafe?, an events space and a...