Practice chalks up two jobs with a combined contract value of more than £1m
BDP has landed two major museum design jobs for London’s Natural History Museum and Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum.
The practice has won a £570,000 job to refurbish the Natural History Museum’s collections stores, which will rehouse five specimen collections, along with library and archive material, across nine spaces at the museum’s South Kensington site. The contract award is subject to a standstill period which ends on 13 October.
The firm has also been named as the winner of a £600,000 job to design new interactive galleries at the Science and Industry Museum aimed at 11-16 year-olds. Set to open towards the end of this decade, the Technicians Galleries scheme will provide hands-on experiences allowing visitors to try out various technical and engineering roles.
The new galleries would be housed within the arches of a historic viaduct on the museum grounds, making use of the space’s monumental cast iron and sandstone pillars as a public gallery for the first time.
BDP’s appointment is initially limited to RIBA stage 2 and will continue to later RIBA stages if the project is approved to continue. The job will run for just over four years, from this month until November 2029.
At the Natural History Museum, BDP has been appointed to refurbish spaces which are currently used to house the museum’s collections, which include fossilised mammals and invertebrates.
The collections are being moved to a new purpose-built facility in Reading designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, which broke ground last month.
The Museum said the existing spaces will be opened to the public to serve a variety of uses including new gallery space. The job will run from this month until December 2030, with a possible extension to December 2031.
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