The incredible Exhibition Road Quarter new V&A Museum entrance was previewed yesterday and opens tomorrow evening with a flourish and a week of special activities labelled the ‘Reveal’ Festival.
This beautiful new entrance includes a huge underground excavation which becomes the new Sainsbury Wing and was designed by Amanda Levete Associates with engineering undertaken by Arup Associates.
The entrance opens onto a slanting huge courtyard with a chic cafe at the top, an incredible light well stainless steel and glass structure at mid level and a sloping entrance in to the main V&A museum building.
On the left a staircase descends to the Sainsbury Gallery, a cavernous space for moving exhibitions where the light well has a beautiful effect.
It’s a huge project and a boost to the moral of London as it’s a truly 21st century world class project.
I loved so much of its photo pleasing angles and curves, the narrowing of the glass from the downstairs new shop to the start of the upstairs cafe, the grooved Instagram friendly pavement, the stairs that seamlessly curve from the wall and especially the final touch of pink walls in both the women’s and men’s loos.
Do go and take a look, its a fabulous project and the V&A Museum can be rightly proud of this achievement.
The new Exhibition Road Quarter entrance of the V&A Museum with the light well and in background cafe and shop