Object
The New Museums Site Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)
Representation ID: 30704
Received: 03/09/2015
Respondent: Dr Boris Jardine
The Mond annexe was designed and built to be part of a suite which includes the Mond Laboratory. As such it cannot be considered as a separate and subordinate building. Photographs in the architectural press dating from the opening of the Mond Lab give just as much prominence to the annexe as to the tower and crocodile. There is no evidence that the architect H.C. Hughes or his contemporaries thought of the annexe as anything other than *part* of the suite of Mond buildings. It must be kept for the same reasons that the Mond Lab is being preserved.
The Mond annexe was designed and built to be part of a suite which includes the Mond Laboratory. As such it cannot be considered as a separate and subordinate building. Photographs in the architectural press dating from the opening of the Mond Lab give just as much prominence to the annexe as to the tower and crocodile. There is no evidence that the architect H.C. Hughes or his contemporaries thought of the annexe as anything other than *part* of the suite of Mond buildings. It must be kept for the same reasons that the Mond Lab is being preserved.