V&A East Storehouse

London, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Cultural · Open-Access Museum Store · Temperate · 2025

A 16,000 sqm working collections store and public destination created inside the former London 2012 Olympics broadcast centre at Here East. It houses more than 250,000 objects, 350,000 books and 1,000 archives, with visitors able to walk among the storage racks and order any object to view by appointment. A 20m-high central hall, the Weston Collections Hall, is carved out of the dense storage mass.

Innovation highlights

• Public access designed into working museum storage
• Adaptive reuse of an Olympic broadcast hangar
• 'Order an Object' on-demand viewing model
• Concentric public-to-private storage zoning

Innovations in the catalogue

• Visitor-Accessible Open Collections Storage
• Concentric Public-to-Private Spatial Zoning
• Adaptive Reuse of an Industrial Broadcast Hangar
• On-Demand Object Retrieval Service

Client / Developer

Victoria and Albert Museum

Architect

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (with Austin-Smith:Lord)

Type

Open-Access Museum Store

#adaptive reuse #museum #open storage #Olympic legacy

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