A gallery, interpretation space, restaurant and shop designed by Feilden Fowles has opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in northern England.
The Weston is a visitor centre marking the entrance to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park ? an open-air gallery in West Yorkshire that includes works by numerous internationally renowned artists including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.

"The building is designed to have minimal impact on the historic landscape and to serve as a subtle and respectful landmark on the eastern boundary of the sculpture park," explained Fergus Feilden, director of Feilden Fowles.
"However, viewed from the bridge over the lake it is clearly a distinct manmade intervention on the edge of the park, the only true horizontal in the rugged parkland," he told Dezeen.
Along with marking the eastern entrance to the park, the visitor centre contains a central lobby with a gallery space and shop on one side and toilets and a restaurant on the other.
Built aligned with the park's boundary, the building has two distinct faces. The eastern facade, which faces out of the park and visitors see as they arrive, is a solid concrete wall punctuated only by the entrance. In contrast a largely glass facade faces the park.

"There are two greatly contrasting elevations responding to their context," said Feilden.
"To the east we have a simple monolithic wall, which provides an acoustic buffer or wall of silence through which visitors pas...