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V&A Members? Room in London
New Interior Architecture London Museum, England, UK – design by Carmody Groarke Architects
26 Sep 2017
V&A Members? Room
Architects: Carmody Groark
Location: Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL, UK
V&A Members? Room

Award-winning architectural practice Carmody Groarke has unveiled the design of the new Members? Room at the Victoria & Albert Museum, which opens to Members today. The studio has converted a top-floor, top-lit gallery space in Aston Webb?s Grade 1 Listed 1909 wing of the Museum to enable the V&A to host Members for hospitality events and refreshments.

Architecturally, the creative adaptation of the original gallery, which is both magnificent in character and vast in scale, has been envisaged as part of the natural continuum of the Museum fabric. As such, Carmody Groarke?s designs have subtly restored and retained existing spatial or detail character and where appropriate reinvented architectural features including lighting and furniture.
The atmosphere of the majestic gallery has been preserved as an open-plan, daylight-filled room. New architectural interventions have been added to accentuate the qualities of the original building, as well as provide visitor comfort with bespoke-designed furniture which creates smaller rooms within the overall space.

The Studio?s design has elevated the original floor level of the ga...