London Architects Tapped for Museum of Conflict in Libya
Published: November 26, 2008
TRIPOLI—The London-based Metropolitan Workshop, an architecture collective founded in 2004 by Neil Deely, David Prichard, and Tim Peake, has won a competition to design Libya’s new Museum of Conflict, the Guardian reports.
The museum will house displays of military aircraft, guns, tanks and other weaponry, from the eras of Hannibal to Khaddafi, on the ground floor; galleries dedicated to the history of the Libyan revolution on the second; and more galleries, meeting spaces, prayer rooms, and a café devoted to "reconciliation and remembrance" on the top floor. According to the Guardian, the Metropolitan Workshop’s “proposed design takes the form of a sequence of origami-like, zigzag forms that somehow manage to conjure an image of some ultra-modern Bedouin tent hunkered down in the desert dunes of north Africa.” The structure will be topped by a lightweight metal “veil” as a sort of camouflage-like protection against the scorching Saharan sun. Construction on the building is scheduled to start next year, and the project is to be completed by 2011 in time for independent Libya’s 60th anniversary. |
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