UK Construction Online takes a closer look at another contender for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize 2016, Newport Street Gallery.
Newport Street Gallery in Vauxall, and winner of RIBA National Award 2016, RIBA London Award 2016, is a converted terrace of listed Victorian industrial buildings, which were once home to theatre carpentry and scenery paining workshops.
The Victorian Workshops are unique in their groups of low level windows and high blank walls above, with the new facades made out of red brick which closely matches the surface of the listed buildings.
Credit to Helene Binet
Caruso St John Architects delivered the bold and confident project, which joins the old and the new seamlessly.
The gallery forms the whole length of the street, with the three listed Victorian buildings flanked at either end by new buildings, with the ground and upper floors within the five buildings continuous, allowing flexibility and plenty of space to host large and small exhibitions.
There are three large galleries on each of the two floors, stretching in a line from one end of the building to the other. The two gallery levels are connected by new spiral staircases and a large lift.
Credit to Helene Binet
A restaurant and administrative office for the gallery is included in the scheme, which shows of exhibitions of the client’s art and is open to the public for free.
RIBA said: “This is an approach to conservation at once radical and sensitive, based on a deep appreciation of the qualities of the host building and the potential of the new programme.”
To read more about the shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2016, click below.
Blavatnik School Of Government
Outhouse Gloucestershire by Loyn & Co Architects
Trafalgar Place – Elephant and Castle
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