Leighton House Museum Building, Purcell Miller Tritton London, Holland Park Road Architecture
Leighton House Museum
Holland Park Architecture, London W14 design by Purcell Miller Tritton Architects, UK
24 May 2023
Art Fund Museum Of The Year 2023
This building has been shortlisted for a £120,000 prize, set to be announced on 12 July 2023.
Art Fund, the UK’s national charity for art, today announced the five museums selected as finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023, the world’s largest museum prize:
Art Fund Museum of Year 2023 Winners
photos © Janie Airey Art Fund 2023
19 May 2011
Leighton House Museum in London
RIBA Award winner, 2011
Design: Purcell Miller Tritton
Address: 12 Holland Park Rd, London W14 8LZ
Phone: 020 7602 3316
photograph © Will Pryce
Leighton House Museum London
Designed in 1864 to display Lord Leighton’s collection of Islamic tiles, the house’s centrepiece is a two storey opulent domed Arab Hall with a central fountain. The whole interior of the house is richly decorated, with ceramic tiles, rich paintwork and gilded ceilings.
photograph © Will Pryce
The building had subsequently been extended and used as a school. Having removed much of the troubling ephemera that had accumulated over the years PMT paid meticulous attention to services, re-decoration, lighting and complex external re-instatements, including the restoration of the rooftop ziggurat. Painstaking research and a strong collaboration between client and architect and a careful eking out of the budget have meant the original character of the building has been accurately though not slavishly recreated. This is a masterpiece of conservation.
photograph © Will Pryce
Leighton House Museum – Building Information
Location: Holland Park Road, London W14
Architect: Purcell Miller Tritton
Client: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Contractor: Coniston Ltd
Structural Engineer: The Morton Partnership
Services Engineer: Harley Haddow
Contract Value: Confidential
Date of completion: Apr 2010
Phone: +44 20 7602 3316
Location: 12 Holland Park Rd, Kensington, West London, W14 8LZ, England, UK
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