Building a new space on the front of the building to extend the foyer, provided flexible education and entertainment facilities, and has resolved several urgent access issues. Working with New York artist Dan Graham, we developed a scheme that respects the essential character of the building with a freestanding glass pavilion providing education space and children's interactive video facility.
Pavilion / Art Gallery
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The Hayward Gallery has a strength of character, volumetric complexity, fluidity and robustness which is unparalleled in exhibition spaces in London. When the Gallery opened, it was state of the art. The vast majority of the building was devoted to exhibition space, with little provision for visitor amenities. As times have changed, the building has come under increasing pressure in terms of its public facilities, which were, prior to the implementation of this project, housed in a temporary structure on one of the external sculpture terraces. |
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Our design proposals removed the temporary structure and built a new space on the front of the building, to give a new face to the Hayward Gallery, extend its foyer, provide flexible education and entertainment facilities, and resolve several urgent access issues. The Hayward is in a conservation area, and is part of one of the most often-discussed and highly contested groups of buildings in London. It was crucial that its new space be of acknowledged excellence. |
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Working with New York artist Dan Graham, we developed a scheme that respects this context and keeps access and visitor facilities specifically in mind. A new cafe and bar area now serves the needs of visitors, while a spectacular elliptical pavilion provides a dynamic education space, including a children's play area, and entertainment space. |
Dan Graham with Graham Haworth
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Dan Graham is an artist of the highest international reputation, known for art, which takes the form of small buildings, exploring space and people's relationship to it with transparent materials such as glass, two-way mirror and perforated steel. This collaboration resulted in his first permanent public commission in this country. |
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HAYWARD GALLERY
Client: South Bank Centre
Value: £1,800,000
Completion: October 2003 |
Thermally insulating glass
Stainless steel
Recycled rubber
'Stopsol -supersilver' two-way mirror glass
Natural anodised aluminium
Flat sceen video monitors
Perforated stainless steel |
