Nottingham Contemporary
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Art gallery located on the sloping site of Victorian railway cutting, featuring naturally lit galleries and a lace patterned pre-cast concrete façade
Caruso St John were selected to design Nottingham’s new Centre for Contemporary Art through an international competition in 2004.
The site for the building is in a part of central Nottingham called the Lace Market, whose history and built form has parallels with the cast iron district of New York, giving the Centre a loose cultural connection to its site.
The architects set out to offer a wide range of interiors that has the variety and specificity of the found spaces of a factory or warehouse, within a new building: rooms that will challenge the installation and production of contemporary art and offer new ways for performers and audiences to interact.
The exterior of the Centre takes its inspiration from the 19th century buildings of Nottingham, and in particular, from the impressive façades of the Lace Market.
Data
- Begun: Jan 2007
- Completed: Sep 2009
- Floor area: 3,400m2
- Sector: Arts and culture
- Total cost: £12.3M
- Funding: Arts Council
- Procurement: JCT 98, Local Authorities with Quantities
- CO2 Emissions: 58kg/m2/year
- Address: Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: Caruso St John
- Client: Nottingham City Council
- Main contractor: ROK/SOL Construction
- Services engineer: Arup
- Quantity surveyor: Jackson Coles
- Planning supervisor: Jackson Coles
- Structural engineer: Arup
- Services engineer: Arup
- Structural engineer: Elliott Wood Partnership