V&A’s New Architecture Gallery Opens

London’s Victoria & Albert Museum unveils a spectacular new architecture gallery this week, and the curators have an astonishing collection on which to draw. “The display can be changed almost infinitely, encouraging repeat visits and allowing keen visitors to construct a picture of how buildings have been commissioned, designed, built, perceived and appreciated – or not – over hundreds of years… Although handsomely designed in a perfectly rational manner by the Glaswegian architect Gareth Hoskins, the collection of architectural riches is the museological equivalent of a box of expensive, gift-wrapped chocolates: temptation layered upon temptation.”