Sir Robert Smirke was an important neoclassical architect, designing buildings inspired by ancient Greece and Rome, and rejecting the frills of rococo and baroque architecture. He designed The ...

Charles Robert Cockerell was a major early Victorian English architect and archaeologist. He began his architectural training at age 16 and went on to work as an assistant to Robert Smirke on the ...

Stepping inside the Great Court, the vast glass-roofed plaza at the heart of London’s British Museum, it’s hard to believe this space was inaccessible to the public for close to 150 years.