Image from Garden Museum by Dow Jones Architects Ltd in London, United Kingdom. For all queries regarding access to AJ online, please email our Online Help Desk at customerservices@ArchitectsJournal.co.uk. In 1976, the tomb of two 17th century royal gardeners, John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger, was traced to the churchyard of the deconsecrated Church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, adjacent to Lambeth Palace. This houses the new galleries and provides a raised ground from which a new perspective of the existing building is attained. Bricks retained from the earlier incarnation now form the path that frames the central planting, and provides the stage for events and entertaining. The new buildings are clad in lapped bronze tiles designed to reflect the scale-like quality of the bark on the plane trees that surround the building. It was here that the museum was established. Passing through to the new extension, you enter a generous cloister-like space which runs between the larger education space and café, meaning the transition, while spatially and materially contrasting – vertical to horizontal, stone to glass and steel – has an ecclesiastical familiarity to it. After a visit in 1977 to see the Tradescant tomb, Rosemary and John Nicholson heard of the threat to the semi-derelict church and decided to set up a trust to save the building and found a Garden Museum there. By continuing to use the site you agree to our Privacy & Cookies policy. Primary colours welcome children to hidden village school in... Primary colours welcome children to hidden village school in Czech Republic, Keeping the studio alive as architecture schools reopen. While the timber insertions have an echo of the jokey toy-town stockade/hut aesthetic of FAT’s 1995 conversion of a church in Amsterdam for advertising agency KesselsKramer, there is a lightness of touch here. You can opt out of some cookies by adjusting your browser settings. Photography by Anthony Coleman The underfloor heating is zoned to provide heat to the occupied zones only, further reducing heating loads by 11 per cent. In 1976, the tomb of two 17th century royal gardeners, John Tradescant the Elder and the Younger, was traced to the churchyard of the deconsecrated Church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, adjacent to Lambeth Palace. I am happy with this, Rethink: How Covid is rearranging the design of homes, Second skin commended: Co-working (with cats). Each is marked by a taller element acting as a light scoop to the interior, and provides quietly functional and calm environments, which can also be hired out for conferences and events. The church’s northern aisle, which previously contained the café, now houses a small shop and acts as a connecting point out to the new extension, as well as to the run of offices and service rooms, including new toilets, that neatly occupy what was previously dead space between the north wall of the church and that of Lambeth Palace’s grounds. The project reduced the carbon emissions of its active technologies by employing high-efficiency boilers to improve the heat generation by 26 per cent. Zoom image | View original size. For the museum sits at the gates to Lambeth Palace, in the slightly isolated strip of Lambeth along the River Thames, cut off by the wide viaduct carrying railway tracks to Waterloo. Alongside this there has been a thorough technical upgrading, including the introduction of underfloor heating. By Rob Wilson, The practice has upgraded and expanded the museum that it first worked on 10 years ago, writes Rob Wilson. By using our site you accept the terms of our Cookie Policy. In October 2007, Dow Jones Architects won an architectural competition to redesign the museum. The first phase began back in 2007, after the practice won a competition to provide new gallery space for both temporary exhibitions and the permanent collection, together with an education room. Three main spaces are arranged in pavilions: a larger education space for school groups to the north; the café connecting through to the street to the south; and the smaller education space at the south-east corner. Text description and more photographs and drawings after the break. More information on how to do this can be found in the cookie policy. The project created new galleries, an education room and storage, and consolidated the nave as an events space. The project sees extensive augmentation and rationalisation of the museum’s front-of-house facilities – new galleries and display spaces, an archive, enlarged education spaces and café – as well as its back-of-house, including new offices. On the other side of the Sackler Garden is a new kitchen: an intimate space for local groups and partners to use for workshops on cooking and nutrition, while providing a focus for the local allotment site overseen by the museum. In front of the pavilions is a new forecourt space that frames the existing porch and entrance to the museum, and has a planting scheme by Christopher Bradley-Hole. We developed a strategy which addressed both issues. The Garden Museum is the world’s first museum dedicated to the history of gardening. Internally the timber frame is over insulated and then plasterboarded. Start on site November 2015Completion May 2017Gross internal floor area 1340m² approxForm of contract JCT standard form with contractor’s design portionConstruction cost£5 millionArchitect Dow Jones ArchitectsClient Garden MuseumStructural engineer MomentumM&E consultant OR ConsultQuantity surveyor Pierce HillLandscape design Dan Pearson Studio; Christopher Bradley-HoleHeritage Neil BurtonLighting design DHAExhibition design GuMArk design Alec CobbeGraphics PentagramArchaeology Archaeology South-EastConservation ClivedonArboriculture Root CauseAV/IT ASICatering consultant Ben BentonProject manager G&TCDM co-ordinator BBSApproved building inspector AssentMain contractor RooffCAD software used Vectorworks, Tags16.11.17 Church Dow Jones Garden Museum London Museum, The new crematorium at Lea Fields is located in parkland near the…, The 112m² house by Studio 54 Architecture for a landscape designer client has…, This £300,000 project by London-based Matthew Giles Architects has extended and renovated a…, Phase 2 of the City Park West mixed-tenure development in the Essex….