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Sir Robert McAlpine will oversee the £39m revamp of the Courtauld Institute of Art at Somerset House in London.
The contractor has won a construction manager role worth around £1m for the project, which is expected to see the closure of the Courtauld Gallery, home to masterpieces such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, for two years from September.
The Courtauld Institute of Art moved into the 18th century Grade-I-listed Somerset House in the Strand in 1989 and this will be its biggest redevelopment in its current home.
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