UCL Wilkins Building Octagon and Flaxman Galleries, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Burwell Deakins Architects, 2012. Exterio

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The project resolves a long running conflict between retaining the statue of St Michael Slaying Satan, whilst reopening the Oculus, at the heart of UCL’s Grade I Listed Wilkins Building. The insertion of a new structural glass plinth supports the statue in its original position, whilst re-opening the oculus reestablishes long lost vistas between the ground floor Octagon Gallery and the cupola topped first floor Flaxman Gallery over. The ground floor Octagon ‘non-space’ is transformed into a museum gallery with the showcases taking reference from plaster reliefs in the adjacent Flaxman Gallery.

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