Aga Khan Award For Architecture | Tag archdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Show Fullscreen
The National Railway Museum at Shildon
The Science Museum Group has chosen architects AOC to design a new building at a railway museum in County Durham.
The £5.4m collection building will house 50 trains, making Locomotion the UK’s biggest rail museum in terms of the number of vehicles it can display: 120.
The project is part of a £6m improvement programme to regenerate the museum’s historic site, a former banana processing plant in Shildon.
AOC was appointed after a competitive design tender which ran earlier in the year. There were 25 bids, mainly from the UK.
The brief was for a sustainable, low-maintenance and low-energy-usage building, which is sympathetic to the local area and accessible for visitors. The final design will feature a lightweight steel frame construction that will be open to the public and will house railway vehicles in a stable environment.