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The coastal setting and vernacular of St Ives informed the design of the new building.  Our focus was to create as large a gallery volume as the site would allow. Entirely excavated into the hillside, the new gallery extends, in a continuous journey, the existing gallery sequence.  Six large light chambers capture St Ives’ particular light, which is diffused through 1.5 metre-deep beams into the gallery below. The chambers contain blackout blinds and gallery track lighting. The 5 metre-high gallery walls contain accessible conduit at their top edge. The new gallery is a single, column free, 500m2 volume, neutral in detail to allow for the varied practices of contemporary art, with the ability to be configured into multiple ar... More