Design Museum has its Eye Set on New Sites
18th September '09
It's Official, plans for a new headquarters for the Design Museum on the site of the former
Commonwealth Institute in Kensington High Street were given the A-OK by the planning committee of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea late wednesday night.
The move will give the Design Museum three times more space and enable the organisation
to realise its vision of becoming one of the world’s leading design museums in London.
Further, the new scheme by Rem Koolhaas’s award-winning Office for Metropolitan Architecture will give the Parabola (the name for the former Commonwealth Institute building) a new life and purpose, while reinvigorating this important area of Kensington.
The design team has been assisted by Lord Cunliffe, a leading member of the original
architectural team for the Commonwealth Institute in 1958, and by James Sutherland the
original structural engineer.
