Hayward Gallery

This gallery houses five exhibition spaces and three outdoor sculpture courts. It connects to the Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall either side of South Bank, and is a continuation of their designs, features and materials.

Pedestrian terraces and indoor ramps link the separate galleries together, which breaks up the mass of the building. This gives the building fortress-like structure, an impression enhanced by panel and slit windows. The structure's robustness and volumetric complexity follow ideas of Brutalist architecture, as do the choice of materials with the exterior dominated by grey stone. The materials being exposed concrete and precast concrete panels with exposed Cornish granite.

Three of the galleries are on the first floor, and the fourth larger one is on the second, surrounded by three sculpture courts. The first two galleries open out as an interconnected space, whils the third is sectioned off by a block staircase. The upstairs galleries are naturally lit, unlike the others. Their rooflights have baffles and monitored horizontal blinds to ensure shadowless, neutral light conditions.