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Victoria & Albert London - Architecture



Victoria & Albert Museum London
Location: South Kensington, west London
Address: Cromwell Gardens / Exhibition Road
Date: 1852

Entry Facade - 1899-1909, designed by Aston Webb:


Entry Atrium


Internal Court - Cafe on north side (pictured), Shop on south side:

Victoria & Albert Museum : photographs © adrian welch may 2007



Sheepshanks Gallery
1857
Captain Francis Fowke

Turner and Vernon Galleries
1858-59
Captain Francis Fowke

North Court & South Court
1862
-

Secretariat Wing
1862
-

Oriental Courts
1863
Owen Jones

The Green Dining Room
1866-68
Philip Webb & William Morris

The Centre Refreshment Room
1865-77
James Gamble

The Grill Room
1876-81
Sir Edward Poynter

Henry Cole Wing
1867-72
Colonel Henry Scott

Cast Courts
1870-73
Colonel Henry Scott

Art Library
1877-83
Colonel Henry Scott

V&A Main façade
1899-1909
Aston Webb
red brick and Portland stone
720ft long
Competition won in 1891

Renewal of main entrance rotunda, new shop, tunnel, sculpture galleries
-
Eva Jiricna Architects

V&A Architecture Gallery, west London
2005
Gareth Hoskins Architects

V&A Cafe
-
McInnes Usher McKnight Architects

V&A Medieval and Renaissance galleries
2009
McInnes Usher McKnight Architects

Victoria & Albert Museum Photographs taken with Panasonic DMC-FX01 lumix camera; Leica lense: 2816x2112 pixels - original photos available upon request:
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Facades on Exhibition Road:


Victoria & Albert Museum Gallery

V&A Spiral Extension proposed by Daniel Libeskind was never built

Adjacent church to northwest:


London Architects

London Buildings



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Victoria & Albert Extension proposal architect : Daniel Libeskind (abandoned 2004)

Victoria & Albert Museum Building : Dundee proposal

Buildings / photos for the Victoria & Albert Architecture page welcome:
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Victoria & Albert Museum - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt