Lebanese-born architect Lina Ghotmeh said she wants to transform the British Museum into “a place of connections for the world and of the world”, after she was selected to redesign a third of the London building’s gallery space.
“Her team’s proposals demonstrated an exceptional and materially sensitive architectural vision for the British Museum, and their ‘archaeological’ approach clearly understood the ambition for this project to be as much an intellectual transformation as an architectural one.
Her company Lina Ghotmeh Architecture (LGA) won the competition to redesign its Western Range galleries – wowing the panel with her “archaeological” approach to architectural design.
Nicholas Cullinan, director of the British Museum, said: “Lina Ghotmeh is an architect of extraordinary grace and gravitas.
Ghotmeh, raised in Beirut, is said by the judging panel to have compared the project to an archaeological dig, along with looking at reimaging the story of the building’s future through drawing on its past.
