Report: Victoria & Albert Museum in London: New V&A extension and entrance

When British practice AL_A won the competition to create a new gallery and entrance for the world-renowned V&A Museum in London they already knew that most of the construction and project would, paradoxically, take place below ground. Architecturally this was a challenge. The practice grappled with the idea of how to make subterranean space enjoyable, light-filled and even dramatic for...