Tapestry has won a 2017 Schueco Excellence Award in the residential category. Judges stated that they ‘liked the beauty and proportion that the practice had brought to a deceptively complex project’ Steven Kennedy, the associate principal at Grimshaw said ‘ There’s an elegance there, a level of quality and attention to detail’.
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.