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By Richard Gatti2021-05-31T07:00:00
After the planning hoo-ha that saw Chipperfield’s original proposals dropped, Wright & Wright has delivered a major expansion that visitors may not even notice, writes Richard Gatti
“I think it’s going to work well as a museum without making a big fuss.”
That’s Clare Wright, on the refurbished Museum of the Home in east London, due to reopen on June 12. The £18m project refurbishes the existing buildings and gardens, adds gallery, library and events spaces as well as relocating the entrance. I don’t think Wright & Wright are unambitious. Rather I think they are more interested in stitching the city back together, in working with the fragments that are already there, and in having an impact without making “icons”.