RIBA East Regional Award 2019

KETTLE'S YARD

Our extension to Kettle's Yard, the University of Cambridge’s modern and contemporary art gallery, is the winner of an RIBA East Award 2019.

The jury commented, ‘Jim Ede’s domestic museum, Kettle’s Yard, which was established in the 1950s and extended by Sir Leslie Martin in the late 60s, has been given an authentic and faithful enhancement through this careful and sensitive project. Rectangular gallery spaces, perfectly proportioned and laid out for international exhibitions, have been set into the random shape of the site with all its nooks and crannies. A deep coherence has been achieved within what had been a disparate collection of parts, and a very pleasing combination of rational and idiosyncratic architectural spaces has been created.’

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