Libya Enlists British Architects for Conflict MuseumThe London-based Metropolitan Workshop, a collective of architects founded in 2004 by Neil Deely, David Prichard and Tim Peake, all of whom used to work with Richard MacCormac, architect of the BBC's revamped Broadcasting House, has won a closed competition to design this very building close to the Hall of the People in Tripoli's west end.
The proposed design takes the form of a sequence of origami-like, zigzag forms that somehow manage to conjure an image of some ultra-modern Bedouin tent hunkered down in the desert dunes of north Africa.
These are early days, yet the form of the building does appear to be appropriate to its setting and makes a welcome contrast to the welter of air-conditioned concrete or steel-framed hotels, offices and government towers that stretch along the old Barbary Coast today.
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