Lebanese architect chosen for the British Museum Showroom Design project

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The Lebanese architect, born Lina Gottie, said that she wants to convert the British Museum into “a place of links to the world and the world”, after she was chosen to redesign a third of the area of ​​the London Building Gallery.

Her Lina Ghotmeh Architecture (LGA) won the competition to redesign its western exhibitions – the painting is calmed with its “archaeological” approach in architectural design.

The house of the ancient Greek, Romanian, Egyptian, Assyrian, and Middle East exhibitions, along with the disputed Eljin marble – which Greece has long campaign to return.

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GHOTMEH recently completed the Hermes Leather workshop in Louvies, Normandy, which was opened in 2023 and features bricks made of bricks, the Eston National Museum in Tartu and Stone Garden Housing in Beirut.

The presentation of her competition to the British Museum said that she wants to “re -conceive together, and she is participating in a continuous date to help build a future collected with diversity.”

An abstract vision of the proposed design, provided by Gotmeh, shows an abstract arrangement of handicrafts with corridors and a flow space.

Ghotmeh said: “My team and I are happy to start this trip to renew the western scope of the British Museum,” Ghotmeh said.

This competition was an exciting process formed by dialogue and multiple sounds. I look forward to continuing this rich and cooperative process, as we are working to convert this section of the museum into an extraordinary space – a place of communications to the world and the world. “

She added that she “oversees the contribution to this comprehensive and public shift that would constitute the future of the museum in the coming years.”

The Ghotmeh jury, which originated in Beirut, by the jury to compare the project with archaeological excavation, was removed, in addition to looking at the re -clarification of the story of the building’s future by relying on its past.

The committee also said that it “showed a deep and sensitive understanding towards the museum, the complexity of display reactions and the second with various visitors.”

“We have begun to find the best and I think we have found it. In Lina Gottie, we have an architect that combines the deep sensitivity to the history of our great group while it is a voice for the future,” said former counselor George Osborne, President of the British Museum and Jury, said.

“We had many distinguished entries – and I thank other practices for all their hard work – but I can say as the chairman of the jury, and it was the distinguished winner.

“Her design ideas are excited and enthusiastic about the trustees. When they become real buildings and exhibitions, we know that they will fly and create millions of visitors.

“When we moved to our current buildings years ago, 200 years ago, the world was dazzled. I think they will be dazzled again when this shift is in our great sculpture exhibitions, and much more, complete.”

The museum, which launched its search for an architect last year, received more than 60 posts.

The final design approach is expected to be shared in cooperation with the artist Ali Sherry, Plan A, Porsil, Holmes Studio, and ARUP by mid -2016.

“Lina Gottie is an architect of extraordinary grace,” said Nicholas Colinan, director of the British Museum.

“Their team’s proposals showed an exceptional architectural vision and physical sensitive to the British Museum, and its” archaeological “approach clearly understood that this project is the intellectual transformation as much as the architectural transformation.

“Lina and her team have a busy record to present a unique and centered design around man with immortal elegance.

“I am happy that we will work together and enthusiastically for the coming years in such a pivotal chapter of the museum, and they started an important project of the generation that will convert one third of our exhibition.”