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“The
Foundation’s focus is to explore the interplay
between art and neuroscience. The Institute is designed
to be a home for this exploration, and where better
to start than with James Turrell.” Louise Blouin MacBain |
The Institute is one of the largest non-government funded,
not-for-profit cultural spaces in London and will be a showcase
for both established and emerging contemporary artists, think-tanks
and artistic performances of all forms, whilst also providing
a home for the Louise T Blouin Foundation and its work. Louise
T Blouin MacBain’s £20 million investment has transformed
a former coach-works into an important cultural arts space,
involving the local community and injecting capital into an
area currently undergoing regeneration and redevelopment.
The former coachworks of Barker & Co, coachbuilders for
Rolls Royce, Bentley and Daimler has had its 1920s industrial
façade retained but architects Borgos
Dance have given
the interior a complete redesign to maximise the building’s
potential and qualities of light. The resculpted interior provides
a dramatic triple height 35 ft entrance hall, an adaptable
5,000 sq ft gallery space and café on the ground floor.
The first and second floors have been designed to provide office
and further exhibition spaces, including a 4,000 sq ft gallery
on the second floor. The permanent Turrell installation will
work with the façades of the building, using all 80
of the existing external windows. Each window, lit from within,
will act as an intelligent unit, controlled individually or
as a whole to create an ever-changing artwork on the façade
of the building.
If you are interested in hiring the Louise T Blouin Institute
space for meetings, receptions, cocktail parties, seminars,
lectures or other events, please call 0207 985 9600 for
further information. |
