1891 – Second Premiated design for South Kensington Museum Competition, London
Architect: John Belcher
The Building News felt that the view seemed conjured “up in the mind the ruins of some stately edifice in the Venetian Lagoons: the dark and massive features appear to rise out of a wet shiny pavement or lake. Surmounted by a pair of domes and fronted by a lower range containing, on the Cromwell Road side, a convex entrance court, Alfred Waterhouse, architect of the nearby Natural History Museum, considered Belcher’s proposal a magnificent design, the most original of the eight entries
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Clerkin, Paul (2009, July 22). *1891 – Second Premiated design for South Kensington Museum Competition, London*. Archiseek.com. https://www.archiseek.com/1891-south-kensington-museum-competition-london-2/ (Updated 2026, February 1)
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Published July 22, 2009 | Last Updated February 1, 2026
