Interior Architecture and design Calista: Design gallery---- The Photographers

The Photographers Gallery London

(Introduction) After almost two years of intense building work, The Photographers' Gallery is ready to celebrate its newly renovated in London. And it is existing brick and steel-frame warehouse building.

The architects extended it upwards and sideways to create much spaces, high quality and airy display areas for what is now the largest gallery in London dedicated to photography.

(Resource: http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/the-photographers-gallery reopens-in- london/5801#63582)

The new parts are visible. Towards the top of the building, three levels of clean, minimal, high-ceiling galleries make for an ideal exhibition space.

The image is site plan,the Photographers Gallery by O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects.

Ground floor.
The ground level hosts a café, while a generous cut of the ground floor slab gives access to a bookshop and print sales area in the basement.

The building responds to the client’s brief by rationally distributing elements vertically. The existing stairwell is retained, and a generous lift is provided adjacent to this which disturbs the fabric of the existing building as little as possible. The building’s legibility is enhanced by the close pairing of this stair and lift, as well as by the clear allocation of single functions on each floor. Larger gallery spaces are located on the upper two floors, within the proposed extension, while the more intimate close control gallery is located within the fabric of the existing building.

(Resource: http://www.metalocus.es/content/en/blog/photographers-gallery london)

The specific characteristics of the design – a deep cut in ground floor facade to reveal the cafe and an opening up of the ground floor slab to a cavernous lower level bookshop, east-facing picture window of the surrounding rooftops, periscope north-light picture window on the city skyline – are the carefully considered consequences of the architects’ understanding of the specific context of this site. A lively environment and meeting place at street level is created.

(Resource: http://www.metalocus.es/content/en/blog/photographers-gallery london)

The building is an intriguingly mutant object, exuding an enigmatic presence that makes you want to get inside and see how it works. A brooding black box perches atop an early 20th century brick warehouse, extending great tongues down each of the two facades. Thick timber-framed windows puncture this smothering skin in three places on its eastern flank, while a single narrow slot juts proudly up at the top of its northern face, rising above the roofline as a beacon to lure in the shoppers — 15,000 of which pass this slot in the street every hour.

(Resource: http://www.detail-online.com/architecture/topics/cost-effective transformation-the photographers-gallery-in-london-021336.html)