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210: 704: 199: 302: 31: 1194: 1208: 541: 277:, 1987. It was created by Keeper of Ethnography Adrian Digby in the 1960s, and opened by his successor William Fagg. Fagg was succeeded by Malcolm Mcleod in 1974, and by John Mack in 1990. The museum ceased exhibiting at Burlington Gardens in 1997 and the Department of Ethnography moved back to the British Museum in Bloomsbury in 2004. 241:. It was a grand building, but not especially large. The University of London is a federal university and this early central building contained little besides examination halls and a few offices; the premises of several of the constituent colleges were larger. The university vacated Burlington Gardens in 1900 for the 330:, which occupies it on a 15-year lease. A second application to the HLF for £12.7m to go towards a £36 million project, was successful in 2013. This included a sculpture court in the bridge between the buildings, a lecture hall where that of the University of London originally stood and a permanent home for 297:
In about 2005 the building was brought back into use by the Royal Academy, the tenant of the original wing of Burlington House and the wing which lies between the two buildings. It was used mainly by the Royal Academy Schools. On 29 August 2006, the building was damaged by a fire, but there was no
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drew up a masterplan for the whole complex, which included a more modest link between the buildings than that proposed by Hopkins. However, Wilson died the following year, which led to another competition being held in 2008, won by
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After the ethnography collection's return to Bloomsbury the building was purchased by the Royal Academy. In 1998 an architectural competition was held to connect it with Burlington House, which was won by
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between 1867 and 1870 as headquarters for the University of London. It occupied the northernmost section of the former garden of
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Architects. In order to raise capital for Chipperfield's design, the building was lent to the commercial gallery
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was not persuaded that there was sufficient need for the project, which would have cost £80 million.
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loss of academy artworks as it was being prepared for a future exhibition.
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building in South Kensington. Briefly the headquarters of the
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List of public art in Mayfair § 6 Burlington Gardens
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51°30′35″N 0°08′25″W / 51.5097°N 0.1402°W / 51.5097; -0.1402
James Pennethorne
Italianate
Listed Building
Grade II*-listed
Mayfair
London
University of London
Civil Service Commission
British Museum
Royal Academy of Arts


Italianate
James Pennethorne
Burlington House
Imperial Institute
National Antarctic Expedition
Department of Ethnography
British Museum
Bloomsbury
Michael Hopkins
Heritage Lottery Fund

Colin St John Wilson
David Chipperfield
Haunch of Venison
Pace Gallery
Giampietrino

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