Heong Gallery, Downing College
Cambridge, United Kingdom 2013–2016
Client: Downing College Developments Grade I listed setting
This project for a new gallery at Downing College in Cambridge, is Caruso St John’s most recent project for the College. The gallery is located close to the campus entrance gates, forming part of a new court that has transformed a complex and unsatisfactory situation at the College entrance. With the reorganisation of the entrance to Parker’s House student accommodation, a previously private service yard has become a new public space, First Court, whilst a modest maintenance building has been converted into a new public art gallery, the Heong Gallery.
Drawings
Exhibition design
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Exhibition
Heong Gallery
Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction
Cambridge, United Kingdom
15th March to 29th August 2022
The Heong Gallery at Downing College opens its new exhibition, Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction on the 15th of March 2022. The gallery designed by Caruso St John will host the contemporary artist's pioneering experiments in bringing the hand, eye, and optical instrument together inventively.
To celebrate its anniversary, the Heong Gallery has created a video looking back at the five years since its transformation from an Edwardian stable block into a public gallery showing modern and contemporary art.
Exhibition
Barbara Hepworth:
Divided Circle
Heong Gallery, Cambridge, United Kingdom
15 November 2019 – 2 February 2020
Designed by Caruso St John, the Barbara Hepworth exhibition Divided Circle opens today at The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge.
Exhibition
Dame Elisabeth Frink
Larger Than Life
Heong Gallery, Cambridge, United Kingdom
4 November 2017 - 6 February 2018
Caruso St John have designed an exhibition of the work of Dame Elizabeth Frink for the Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge. Frink's archetypal bronzes are on show alongside multiple bird figures, small figure groups, drawings and prints.
Award
RIBA Awards 2017
Caruso St John's projects for the Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, and the refurbishment and extension of Liverpool Philharmonic Hall have won RIBA Awards.
The new art gallery designed by Caruso St John for Downing College opens to the public on 6th February 2016. The gallery will open with an exhibition of British Art from the Collection of Sir Alan Bowness, former Director of Tate and an alumnus of Downing College
Credits
Location
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Date
2013–2016
Client
Downing College Developments
Heritage
Grade I listed setting
Area
178 m²
Caruso St John Architects
Adam Caruso, Peter St John
Project architect
Timo Keller (2013-15), Paul Maich (2015-16)
Project team
Catija Christensson, Will Pirkis
Structural engineer
Philip Harvey Associates Ltd
Services engineer
WSP
Cost consultant
Robert Lombardelli Partnership Ltd
Landscape architect
Studio Karst GmbH
Graphic designer
John Morgan Studio
Main contractor
Downing Buildings
Photography
Ioana Marinescu
Awards
RIBA East Award
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