London Museum

The London Museum's new home is an ambitious adaptive reuse of the historic Smithfield market buildings at West Smithfield, bringing one of the world's great city museums back to the heart of the City of London. Led by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan with conservation architect Julian Harrap, the project rescues the long-vacant General Market and Poultry Market — soaring Victorian iron-and-glass halls — and converts them into luminous galleries, public gathering spaces and event venues. The design choreographs a journey from light-filled market halls down into dramatic sunken galleries set within the building's brick vaults, organizing the visitor experience around themes of the city's past, present and future. Restored domes, recovered original ironwork and a new public entrance reanimate a once-derelict corner of London, while the museum is conceived as a free, around-the-clock civic destination — open, porous and woven into the surrounding streets, markets and the new Elizabeth line connections nearby.