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Haworth Tompkins wins planning for £14.5m London University institute
Architect’s brief was to restore Warburg Institute’s revolutionary spirit
Haworth Tompkins’ £14.5m redevelopment of the Warburg Institute has been approved by Camden council.
The project will see the expansion, modernisation and modernisation of its Bloomsbury home, designed by Charles Holden who was also responsible for nearby Senate House, as well as dozens of Tube stations.
The institute, now part of the University of London, was founded by Aby Warburg in Hamburg in 1900 and studies the interaction of ideas, images and society through history. It was moved to London after the rise of the Nazis.
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