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The Arts Council Collection of Sculpture
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The building provides a storage and exhibition venue for the Arts Council of England's collection of sculpture and associated works on paper.
Comprising 679sqm of gallery spaces and 1130sqm of storage facilities it is a significant building, located within an environment of major art buildings in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It comprises a secure store with an integral viewing room for the whole of the collection, conservation and workshop areas, and extensive exhibition spaces, that comply with internationally recognized standards of security and environmental control.
Within the scheme are offices and education rooms for the collection located in a building nearby. The two buildings are part of a small industrial estate that had been refurbished by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Our scheme maintained the integrity of that development while identifying and linking the purpose of two buildings by a small number of exterior elements.
The resulting design recognises the emotive value of the existing buildings, their particular appropriateness as places for art, and the economic benefits of their reuse.
Status: completed June 2003
Client: Arts Council of England
Structural Engineer: Price & Myers
Building Services Engineers: Faber Maunsell
Photographs: Winter/Horbelt exhibition, June-Oct 04 © Natalie Rudd. Image below © David Grandorge
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