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Victoria & Albert Museum London
Date: 1852
Design: various architects
Location: South Kensington, west London
Address: Cromwell Gardens / Exhibition Road
Entry Facade - 1909, designed by Aston Webb:
photos © Nick Weall
West Entrance, Exhibition Road:
photos © Nick Weall
Internal Court - Cafe on north side (pictured), Shop on south side:
Victoria & Albert Museum : photographs © adrian welch
V&A Museum Galleries + Spaces, chronological:
Sheepshanks Gallery
1857
Captain Francis Fowke
Turner and Vernon Galleries
1858-59
Captain Francis Fowke
North Court & South Court
1862
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Secretariat Wing
1862
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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
photo © Nick Weall
Cast Courts
1870-73
Colonel Henry Scott
Art Library
1877-83
Colonel Henry Scott
V&A Main façade
1899-1909
Aston Webb
photographs © adrian welch
red brick and Portland stone
720ft long
Competition won in 1891
Renewal of main entrance rotunda, new shop, tunnel, sculpture galleries
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Eva Jiricna Architects
Entry Atrium
photographs © adrian welch
V&A Architecture Gallery, west London
2005
Gareth Hoskins Architects
V&A Cafe
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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 Jewellery Gallery
Eva Jiricna Architects
photograph : Katsuhisa Kida
V&A Museum Women’s Amenities
Glowacka Rennie Architects
picture © Arch Image Photography
Victoria & Albert Museum Gallery
Gareth Hoskins Architects
V&A Gallery London : image by Morley Von Sternberg
V&A Spiral Extension proposed by Daniel Libeskind was never built
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Victoria & Albert Extension proposal architect : Daniel Libeskind (abandoned 2004)
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Victoria & Albert Museum - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
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