The Weston, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Cultural · Gallery And Visitor Centre · Temperate · 2019

A visitor centre, gallery and restaurant for Yorkshire Sculpture Park, fronted by a 50m wall of pigmented in-situ concrete cast with local limestone, granite and sandstone aggregates to resemble the area's geological strata. A board-marked, top-lit gallery filters daylight through a translucent screen. It won an RIBA National Award in 2019.

Innovation highlights

• Pigmented concrete using local stone aggregates
• Strata-like layered cast wall
• Top-lit gallery with diffusing GRP screen
• Building reading as part of the landscape

Innovations in the catalogue

• Top-Lit Gallery With Diffusing Screen
• Pigmented Concrete With Local Stone Aggregate

Client / Developer

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Architect

Feilden Fowles

Type

Gallery and visitor centre

#gallery #concrete #geology #daylight #landscape

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