Millennium Galleries
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Visual arts, craft and design centre with internal avenue providing a pedestrian route between the station and Sheffield city centre
The buildings is set into the slope of the hill with the galleries on the upper level over a service undercroft.
The glazed front is set within a slender modular frame of white concrete and reveals the ground floor café to the bustle of Arundel Gate. Long silver louvres screen the Long Gallery above.
Inside, a light and spacious entrance hall has escalators to the first floor 'avenue' which serves both as an indoor street to the Winter Garden and gives access to the five galleries on its left side.
The roof comprises a series of lateral barrel vaults, only partly visible externally, of fine white pre-cast concrete with columns and beams of the same material, giving a cool tranquillity to the interior.
The largest gallery is flexibly planned with moveable full height screens that run parallel with the vaults.
Data
- Begun: Mar 1999
- Completed: Apr 2001
- Floor area: 4,594m2
- Sectors: Arts and culture, Sports and leisure
- Total cost: £12.8M
- Tender date: Nov 1997
- Procurement: JCT 1987
- Address: 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, S1 2PP, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects
- Project architects: Ian Sharratt, John Pringle, Penny Richard
- Client: Sheffield City Council, Parks and Countryside
- Acoustic consultant: Arup Acoustics
- Services engineer: Fulcrum Consulting/ WW
- Leader House Refurbishment: Graham Stuart Construction
- Exhibition designer: Jasper Jacob Associates
- Project manager: Sheffield Design & Property
- Quantity surveyor: Sheffield Design & Property
- Planning Supervisor : Sheffield Design & Property
- Management Contractor: Interserve Project Services Ltd
- Landscape consultant: Landscape Consultant Weddle Landscape Design
Suppliers
- Aluminium framed glazing: RC System (UK)
- Planting: Rentokil Ltd - Tropical Plants Division
- Glass Roof: Vitral UK Ltd
- Lighting : Erco Lighting
- Blockwork: Forticrete Ltd
- External glazing: Soliver Waregem
- Solar blinds: Levolux AT
- Glass balustrades: Sovereign Stainless Fabrications Ltd
- External spiral stairs: Albion Design of Cambridge Ltd