Haworth Tompkins have been working with Haunch of Venison to extensively re-model the existing spaces of their unique London gallery, working with the existing spaces and using the found space and fabric as a basis for new proposition, respecting the strengths and primary character of the existing but without becoming overtly sentimental about the historic detail.
Art Gallery / Retail
103 New Bond Street, London |
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Haunch of Venison Gallery is located just off New Bond Street and the premises were built in the 18th Century, later used as a car showroom and then converted to storage space for Phillips Auctioneers in the 20th Century. It is likely that the conversion of the rear of the property to incorporate a car dealership in the early 1900s gave rise to the generous top lit salon spaces and the introduction of the glazed link to the Georgian building on New Bond Street.
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The building has very specific and unique qualities that are unusual to find intact and relatively untouched. It is really two buildings, - a Georgian house and an Edwardian show room, linked to form a whole, which extends through the urban block from New Bond Street to Haunch of Venison Yard. This presents an unusual collision of forms spaces and histories, making up a unique piece of hidden London. |
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The large Salon room, which is 4.8 metres high to the cornice, rising to 9.0 metres under the roof lantern, is on a par with the scale of the grand gallery spaces in the National Gallery and Royal Academy. The contrast between the utilitarian stock brick exterior and the discovery of space of this quality is a special, almost eccentric experience.
The air of somewhat decadent grandeur is enhanced by the generosity and sweeping flow of the formal staircase and a singular Doric column in the main Salon.
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The whole spatial storey of the building however is presently compromised through a series of unfortunate alterations and additions and due to the fact that the whole building is not currently occupied by the Gallery. The Gallery have been in part occupation since 2003 and we are now drawing up redevelopment proposals to convert the remainder of the building to gallery space, improve, circulation and make environmental improvements when the remainder of the building becomes vacant at the end of 2006. The building is in Westminster and is Grade 2 listed. |
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HAUNCH OF VENISON
103 New Bond Street
Client: Haunch of Venison /
Canadian & Portland Estates
Value: £2,000,000
Completion: 2008
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