Amanda Levete, Haworth Tompkins and Caruso St John among those beaten
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won the contest to design the Science Museum鈥檚 new 拢24m medicine galleries.
The practice beat Amanda Levete Architects, Haworth Tompkins, Rick Mather Architects, MUMA, Caruso St John and Gareth Hoskins.
The extensive project will create a new 3,000 sq m home for the museum鈥檚 medical collections on the first floor. It will be almost double the size of the existing medical galleries on the fourth and fifth floors.
Karen Livingstone, director of masterplan at the Science Museum, said the ambition was to create the world鈥檚 greatest centre for the understanding of medicine through a ground-breaking suite of new galleries.
She added: 鈥淲ilkinson Eyre鈥檚 designs conveyed a real sensitivity for the museum鈥檚 unrivalled medical collections and the gallery space. Their approach will create an elegant and contemporary space to display beautiful objects and tell compelling human stories.鈥�
Wilkinson Eyre director Jim Eyre said: 鈥淭his is a really significant project which will give due prominence to the extraordinarily diverse objects from the Science Museum and Henry Wellcome鈥檚 collections. We are very pleased to be working with the Science Museum again and look forward to embarking on the design of these object-rich gallery spaces.鈥�
The galleries, which will tell personal stories about how lives have been transformed by changes in medicine and health over the last 400 years, will be completed in 2018.
They are a major project within the Science Museum鈥檚 masterplan which will transform around a third of the museum鈥檚 South Kensington estate over the next five years.
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