Readers looking forward to seeing Niall McLaughlin Architects' elegant, cloistered entrance and open-air galleries at the Natural History Museum are going to be disappointed. Working with landscape architect Kim Wilkie, the practice won a Malcolm Reading Consultants contest to land the job in 2014, netting planning permission two years later. However, it has emerged that the museum's top brass has been plotting for some time to changetack, opting instead for a lower-key, gardenlike scheme-now billed as a 'biologically diverse, accessible and welcoming green space' -outside its Alfred Waterhouse-designed Grade I-listed home in South Kensington.
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