Foster + Partners to collaborate with Adrien Gardere on museum design in Narbonne
The new Musee de la Romanitee Narbonne is clean-lined and classic in form, its overhanging canopy casting welcome shade over a generous public plaza. This is the winning scheme in an international competition for the project, devised by Foster + Partners in collaboration with interior designer and museum specialist Adrien Gardere. An expansive collection of over 1,000 ancient stone relief funerary blocks discovered in the local area will be proudly displayed within the museum, lending a personal edge to the French port’s archaeological history. The town of Narbonne is recognised for the vast quantities of ancient relics, archaeological sites and building legacies found in the local vicinity, with this latest museum dedicated to the exhibition of Roman artefacts. Senior Partner and Head of Design at Foster + Partners, Spencer de Grey, explains: “We have been inspired by the

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