Reimagining the Royal Institution

Abstract

The Royal Institution of Great Britain in London reopens this week after two years of renovations costing £22 million (US$ 44 million). The eighteenth-century building now flaunts its heritage, spotlighting the scientists who worked there and discovered 10 chemical elements and claimed 14 Nobel prizes (see page 568). Architect Terry Farrell explains how he rethought the institution's ethos.