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Maritime Museum extension in London gets approval
Published: 24-Jul-2009
UK-based conversation specialist Purcell Miller Tritton has secured planning permission and listed building consent for a new GBP35 million ($57.6 million) wing at London’s National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.
Named after Sammy Ofer, the shipping billionaire who donated GBP20 million ($33 million) to the project, the 7,340 square meters wing will be designed by Purcell Miller Tritton, who had controversially replaced CF Moller as ‘executive architect’.
The new wing will create a direct entrance from Greenwich Park to the Grade I listed museum, which will include exhibition and research space, restaurants and visitor facilities.
Mark Goldspink, chief executive of Purcell Miller Tritton, said that the scheme will rationalize the south-west corner of the museum, creating a much clearer and more coherent approach for visitors, whilst the sympathetic design will ensure that the extension enhances the setting of the existing structure.
Work is slated to begin on site in mid 2009 and is expected to be complete by 2012.
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