The Master's Field Development for Balliol College has won 2 awards at this years Schüco Excellence Awards in the Health, Education and Leisure category and as the overall winner. One of the judges commented “This thoughtful, high-quality project works at many different scales, from its collegiate context to the beautiful detailing of the façades”.
Below are some from the Natural History Museum site showing the scaffold ‘tunnel’ going up at the Museum. This is the framework required to lift, manipulate, and move the blue whale skull into position in a few weeks.
Though the main hall has had a sperm whale in it before, this was only around 15m long. In contrast, the blue whale, the largest known animal to have ever existed, is about 30m long once assembled.
Unfortunately, due to the various extensions and alterations to the Museum over time, the skull can only come in via the front doors. And – much like a very large, very heavy, very valuable sofa – it’s a case of squeezing it in at strange angles.