Phillips de Pury Auction House and Art Gallery
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Art gallery interior, retained roof trusses
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Fit out of a former Royal Mail sorting office as a gallery and auction venue in central London
The building has a deep plan is divided up into a series of flexible gallery spaces. The entrance lobby on the ground floor and galleries public, the basement and first floor have a similar plan with a series of galleries arranged around a larger space used for auctions.
Materiality within the building is simple but is used to distinguish spaces, the entrance lobby has concrete floor which leeds on to a untreated timber floor inside the main gallery space.
A mixture of artificial and natural light from the full width rooflights and winter garden illuminate the spaces but means that the quality of light can change.
The main circulation is via stairs and a plan set by the architects. A requirement of the client was that the spaces be flexible and adaptable to the varying needs of the exhibits.
Data
- Begun: Jul 2007
- Completed: Feb 2008
- Floor area: 3,235m2
- Sector: Arts and culture
- Total cost: £4.2M
- Tender date: Apr 2007
- Procurement: JCT 98
- Address: Howick Place, London, SW1P 1BB, United Kingdom
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Professional Team
- Architect: Nissen Adams
- Project architect: Ben Adams
- Client: Phillips de Pury
- Planning supervisor: LST Consultants
- Main contractor: ISG InteriorExterior
- Quantity surveyor: Davis Langdon
- Services engineer: GDM
- Structural engineer : Heyne Tillett Steel
