Rick Mather Architects
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Photo © Courtesy of Richard Bryant/Arcaid. Co.UK--Charles Robert Cockerell's Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, is a Grade 1—listed building. One of the historic review board's requirements was that the expansion would not be seen from the street, the vantage point from which this photograph was taken. |
Rick Mather’s Ashmolean expansion brings a museum’s remarkable collection into the light.
Not long ago, the ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, was like many of the objects it houses: an antique earthen-ware vessel, astonishing for what it was in its day, but not something that worked well for everyday use in modern times.
