A sensitive refurbishment of the Hayward
Gallery by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley
Studios means, among other things, that
its large exhibition halls are now flooded
with natural light, as originally intended.
Following two years of repairs, the brutalist
structure’s 66 pyramidal roof lights – which
had remained closed off and unused for
half a century due to technical difficulties –
are now back in business. The work on
the art gallery, which first opened in 1968
with a design by a group of young architects
including Dennis Crompton, Warren Chalk
and Ron Herron, is part of the studio’s wider
and ongoing Southbank Centre renewal
scheme. The gallery reopened with a show
by German photographer Andreas Gursky,
which runs until 22 April and kicks off its
50th-anniversary celebrations. It is Gursky’s
first major retrospective in the UK and
features some 60 works. Ellie Stathaki
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