Editing Victoria and Albert Museum (section)

====Exhibition Road Quarter====
[[File:Victoria And Albert Museum (K2 Telephone Kiosk Outside The Victoria And Albert Museum, bottom Left).jpg|thumb|New entrance and courtyard on [[Exhibition Road]], opened 2017]]
In 2011 the V&A announced that London-based practice [[AL A]] had won an international competition to construct a gallery beneath a new entrance courtyard on Exhibition Road.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dezeen.com/2011/03/28/amanda-levete-architects-win-va-exhibition-road-project/|title=AL_A win V&A Exhibition Road project – Dezeen|date=28 March 2011|website=dezeen.com}}</ref> Planning for the scheme was granted in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dezeen.com/2012/07/11/va-exhibition-road-by-al_a/|title=V&A museum Exhibition Road extension by AL_A – Dezeen|date=11 July 2012|website=dezeen.com}}</ref> It replaced the [[Victoria and Albert Museum Spiral|proposed extension]] designed by [[Daniel Libeskind]] with [[Cecil Balmond]] but abandoned in 2004 after failing to receive funding from the [[Heritage Lottery Fund]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecityreview.com/london.htm|title=Elsewhere: London: The Millennium Projects: Museum Expansions|website=www.thecityreview.com}}</ref>

The Exhibition Road Quarter opened in 2017, with a new entrance providing access for visitors from [[Exhibition Road]]. A new courtyard, the Sackler Courtyard, has been created behind the Aston Webb Screen, a colonnade built in 1909 to hide the museum's boilers. The colonnade was kept but the wall in the lower part was removed in the construction to allow public access to the courtyard.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/futureplan/aston-webb-screen-reveal |title=Aston Webb Screen Reveal|first=Alice |last=Fraser|date=10 February 2017 |publisher=V&A}}</ref> The new 1,200-square meter courtyard is the world's first all-porcelain courtyard,<ref name="quarter opening">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/29/duchess-cambridge-tours-new-spaces-victoria-albert-museum/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/29/duchess-cambridge-tours-new-spaces-victoria-albert-museum/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Duchess of Cambridge 'quite stunned' by world's first all-porcelain courtyard at V&A Museum |date=29 June 2020 |publisher=The Telegraph }}</ref> which is covered with 11,000 handmade porcelain tiles in fifteen different linear patterns glazed in different tone. A pavilion of [[Modern architecture|Modernist]] design with glass walls and an angular roof covered with 4,300 tiles is located at the corner and contains a cafe.<ref name=dezeen>{{cite web |url= https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/28/ala-amanda-levete-v-a-victoria-albert-museum-exhibition-road-quarter-courtyard-gallery-london/ |title=AL_A completes tile-covered entrance and subterranean gallery for London's V&A museum |publisher=Dezeen |first=Jessica |last=Mairs |date= 28 June 2017}}</ref> Skylights on the courtyard provide natural light for the stairwell and the exhibition space located below the courtyard created by digging 15m into the ground. The Sainsbury Gallery's column-less space at 1,100 square metres is one of the largest in the country, providing space for temporary exhibitions. The gallery can be assessed through the existing Western Range building where a new entrance to the Blavatnik Hall and the museum has been created, and visitors can descend into the gallery via stairs with lacquered tulipwood balustrades.<ref name=dezeen /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/vas-new-48m-exhibition-road-quarter-triumph-review/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/vas-new-48m-exhibition-road-quarter-triumph-review/ |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=The V&A's new £48m Exhibition Road Quarter is a triumph – review|date=28 June 2017 |publisher=The Telegraph |first=Ellis |last=Woodman}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/02/v-and-a-victoria-and-albert-museum-courtyard-amanda-levete-exhibition-road-revuew |title=Exhibition Road Quarter: the V&A digs deep |first=Rowan |last=Moore|date= 2 July 2017 |publisher=The Observer}}</ref>