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Darwin Centre Phase 1

Zoology Building, Natural History Museum, London.

120,000 sf. Replacement building for a collection of 22 million marine specimens housed in a large ‘cold store’ with adjoining laboratories and offices for residential scientists. This brave new contemporary building is adjacent to the Grade One listed terracotta 19th Century Natural History Museum.

The detail design and tender phase was spent on site, working alongside the structural and services engineers, Buro Happold, the quantity surveyor, project manager and contractor. ARUP Facades provided the performance specification for the skin. I found this to be a highly rewarding and enervating way of working.

I spent 2 ½ years on this project, being one of a core team of three people that saw the project from early schematic design through to construction administration.