Maidstone Museum, Maidstone, United Kingdom. Architect: Hugh Broughton Architects Limited, 2012. Contrasting facade perspective.
The Hugh Broughton Architects practice was appointed in 2006 through an RIBA competition and was tasked with measures including the improvement of physical and intellectual access and ensuring the long term preservation of the museum’s collection. Running between the new extension and the existing building a consistent palette has been applied inside including a chevron pattern oak floor and fermacell lined walls as well as practical but subtle lighting. ‘Where possible we’ve tried to open up views of older parts of the museum, including a new orientation gallery where you now have views of old Tudor facades which were blocked out by a loading bay,’ says Broughton. The process has been one of knitting together new and old to create a free-flowing pattern of circulation.
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