Victoria & Albert Boilerhouse Yard, Exhibition Road Project, London, Design, Architects, Building
V&A London Boilerhouse Yard
Exhibition Road Project: London Museum building design study for empty V&A site
28 Jun 2017
V&A Exhibition Road Project in London
V&A Exhibition Road Project Film
e-architect share a beautifully shot film of the new V&A Exhibition Road Quarter, created by Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete and her practice, AL_A.
The short film, created by Matthew Donaldson and narrated by Amanda Levete, offers the first visual tour of the museum?s largest architectural intervention in over 100 years and offers a unique and engaging perspective into the architecture of the new space.
Key quotes from Amanda Levete?s interview with CNN Style:
?There was a big paradox inbuilt into the brief of the V&A which is that the vast new exhibition space, the gallery space, is below ground and therefore not visible to the public. And we wanted to find a way of addressing that paradox in our design? and in interrogating the nature of that paradox, we came up with this notion of how do we make visible the invisible"?
?Working in a building as historic and as beautiful as the V&A was maybe the opposite of a constraint. If you can negotiate the threshold between modernity and history then something is really beginning to connect and speak between the two centuries.?

?We took a decision to put the stair down into the gallery space ...