Photo as I walk into the main entrance to the great court

The British museum is a mixture between modern and Greek architecture. The frame is made purely of steel and it has been filled with London stock brick and faced with Portland stone. The shape of the building is of a quadrangle, it is divided into 4 separate wings, like a compass, South, East North and West. It was designed in 1823 by a man named Sir Robert Smirke, in the style of Greek Revival.  It has concrete foundations and in 1882 Sir John Taylor designed a reading room which was in the same design style as Smirke’s.

Inside the Great Courtyard

Originally designed to be a garden by Robert Smirke, the great court was designed by Lord Foster, who was selected out of 130 applicants in the competition, to design the space after the library was moved to another location. The canape contains 3,312 pains of glass of which a computer installed and designed in 1999.
The brief of the competition had 3 objectives;
to create new spaces, to reveal hidden places, and to revise old spaces. This brief was met by Foster and partners and the Court was opened in December 2000 by the queen.