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Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Rd and Finchley Rd, London
Camden Arts Centre is a publicly funded contemporary visual arts centre in North
London, with a successful history of exhibitions and education. We were
commissioned in 2000 to work on the original Victorian building which the
Centre has occupied since the 1970s, making long overdue repairs to the
building fabric, bringing the gallery and studio facilities up to date,
and providing a new cafe and bookshop.The centre piece of our scheme is a new public concourse in the ground floor that visibly connects the neighbourhood to the café and garden and places the bookshop on view from the street.
Our strategy for the first floor was to make our work almost invisible, disguising it to look like the original fabric. The different characters of the gallery spaces have been maintained, while their functionality has been radically improved.
The project was commended in The Camden Design Awards 20054 and nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies Van der Rohe Award 2005.
Status: reopened 2004, glass wall unveiled 2005
Awards: Camden Design Awards 2004 (commendation), European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (longlisted)
Photographs: Helene Binet
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