Arts Centre, Dundee, Scotland, Richard Murphy Architects

1) The modest two-storey Perth Road elevation flanks the existing Roman Catholic Cathedral

 

2)Perspective. The new building forms part of a plan to regenarate Dundee's Center. Elevations explore layering of forms and materials.The copper-clad new building grows out of the shell of the brick warehouse.

 

3) The curved prow of the building houses a small shop

 

4) A ceremonial staircase leads down to the lower levels (cinemas)

 

5) The height differences across the site reveals itself in the void that slices through the building

 

6) sectional perspective looking east

 

7) & 8) The long luminous entrance hall overlooked by offices above

 

9) Lower ground floor & first floor plans

 

10) the spinal entrance entrance foyer overlooks the bar outside the cinemas at lower level.

 

11) The tall volume of the cinema foyer, animated by colour, light and texture

 

12) Basement and ground floor plans

 

13) Spatial fluidity is designed to encourage interaction between functions and disciplines / secondary gallery space

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14) The main gallery occupies the top floor of the old brick warehouse.

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retour aux précédents architecturaux source: The Architectural Review, Aug. 1999, vol 206 #1230