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dc.coverage.spatialSite: British Museum (London, England, United Kingdom)en_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 1997-2000 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorFoster + Partnersen_US
dc.creatorBüro Happolden_US
dc.date1997-2000en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-16T20:09:27Z
dc.date.available2013-09-16T20:09:27Z
dc.date.issued1997-2000en_US
dc.identifier234247en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2603en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/141674
dc.descriptionSpace for restrooms and shop under the pilotis of the curved staircase; shadows cast by tessellated glass roof; When the British Library, previously housed in the central courtyard (with the Round Reading Room in the center) moved into a new building in 1997, the central court was redeveloped to become the Great Court. Colin St. John Wilson, the architect of the new library, developed the first plan for the new museum court in the 1970s which Foster took as his starting point. The court has a tessellated glass roof designed by Buro Happold and executed by Waagner-Biro, covering the entire court and surrounding the original Reading Room in the center, now the museum library. (A new outer wall was constructed for the Reading Room, this supports the glass roof). It is the largest covered square in Europe. The glass and steel roof is made up of 4,878 unique steel members connected at 1,566 unique nodes and 1,656 pairs of glass windowpanes making up 6,100 m2 of glazing; each of a unique shape because of the undulating nature of the roof. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/16/2012)en_US
dc.format.mediumsteel; glass; stoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary (1960 to present)en_US
dc.subjectMuseologyen_US
dc.subjectcovered courtyarden_US
dc.subjectTwenty-first centuryen_US
dc.titleBritish Museum, Queen Elizabeth II Great Courten_US
dc.title.alternativeBritish Museum Great Courten_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-RSHP-BMGC-A27en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktypemuseumen_US
vra.worktypelobbyen_US
dc.contributor.displayBüro Happold (British structural engineering firm, founded 1977); Foster + Partners (British architectural firm, founded (as Foster Associates) 1967; renamed ca. 1999)en_US


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