Museums and Galleries
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V&A London
The Victoria and Albert Museum is one of the world’s greatest museums of art and design.
Working alongside AL_A, the project unlocked the potential to bring new audiences into the V&A, breaking down the separation between Exhibition Road and the museum.
The 6,360m² Exhibition Road scheme is an engineering feat with extraordinarily challenging structural works, all carried out while the Museum remained fully accessible to the public. The project and its gallery 18m below the surface necessitated piling 50m down within 1m of a Grade I Listed building and underpinning a wing of the V&A and its collection while the Museum was fully operational.
Client : V&A
Architect: Amanda Levete Architects
Acoustic Design : Arup
Role : Project manager of multi-disciplinary team and lead acoustic designer.
Budget : £48m
Completion : 2012
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V&A Dundee, Scotland
The new V&A Dundee faces the River Tay which flows south of the Dundee River. The structure projects out over the water, providing a new type of architecture which blends into the natural environment and the surrounding landscape.
V&A Dundee, Scotland's first design museum is dedicated to creativity & offering fascinating exhibitions.
The museum comprises galleries, offices, a restaurant, shops and a cafe. I was in charge of room acoustics, building acoustics and control of noise vibration from building services.
Architects: Kengo Kuma
Acoustic Design: Arup
Role : Acoustic Designer up to RIBA Stage D.
Budget: €80m
Completion: 2018
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Art Institute of Chicago
The new Modern Wing designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop was built between Michigan Avenue and Columbus Drive, at the northeast corner of the block the Art Institute of Chicago occupies and near the Millennium Park and its major feature, Frank Gehry’s celebrated Jay Pritzker Pavilion. The new wing completed the cultural, urban campus of the museum.
The Modern Wing offers brand new galleries for the Art Institute’s renowned collection of modern European painting and sculpture as well as its revelatory collection of contemporary art, including film, video, and new media.
Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Acoustic Design: Arup
Role: Acoustic engineer
Completion: 2009
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St Malo Maritime History Museum
The Saint-Malo maritime history museum is designed as “a museum in the air”. It would have been a new emblem in the heart of the city which extends over a multiple site. The acoustic design was provided by Theatre Projects intended to be working with the architecture of Kengo Kuma and Associates.
The project was unfortunately cancelled in 2019 whilst taken to a detailed design level.
Client : Ville de St Malo
Architects: Kengo Kuma
Acoustic Design: Theatre Projects
Role : Project Technical Direction and Main Acoustic Designer
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Titanic Belfast
Working alongside Anne Lucas from Civic Arts and local practice Todd Architects, I brought the project to Arup and provided acoustic design for the entire building.
The five-storey building contains a large central atrium giving visitors access to each of the nine galleries contained within the four corner wings.
Architects: CivicArts and Todd Architects
Acoustic Design: Arup
Role: Project management and lead acoustician
Budget: £97m
Completion: 2012
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Weltmuseum Event Space, Vienna, Austria
Following an international open competition in 2013, Hoskins Architects in collaboration with Ralph Appelbaum Associates were appointed to redevelop exhibition and visitor facilities at Weltmuseum Wien in the historic Hofburg Palace in Vienna.
The facilities comprise an event space dedicated to small music performances (piano recitals, string quartets, jazz) but also small conferences. Following our ongoing working relationship (See Shetland’ Mareel) Gareth Hoskins contacted to join their team and provide acoustic design for the space.
Client: KHM-Museumsverband
Architect: Hoskins Architects
Acoustic Design: Theatre Projects
Role: Project Technical Director and Acoustic Designer
Completion: 2017
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Guggenheim Museum, Helsinki
This anonymous international design competition saw over 1,751 entries and was regarded as one of the most important of recent years. It was organised by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which also organised the seminal competition for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, won by Frank Gehry in 1991.
