1 December 2010
Competition entry
We have submitted our entry for the Room For London competition organised by Living Architecture, Artangel, and the South Bank Centre. A collection of rooms for retreat and contemplation, "Reading Rooms" is housed in a series of golden volumes creating a new roofscape on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Each function of a typical hotel room is accommodated in an individual volume, specifically tuned to its purpose through control of daylight and scale. The interior of each room is curated to evoke a series of previous Rooms for London; spaces inhabited by key chroniclers of London’s past such as Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens, and Virginia Woolf.
