City green lights £337m Museum of London proposals

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2020-06-24T05:00:00

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Museum to move into old West Smithfield market buildings

The City of London Corporation has approved £337m plans to move the Museum of London from Powell & Moya’s brutalist citadel into the crumbling market buildings at West Smithfield.

The scheme has been drawn up by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan working with specialist conservation architect Julian Harrap. The practices have spent four years working on the detailed plans.

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