Hugh Broughton Architects has added a new visitors centre and an oxidised-steel extension to the Henry Moore Studios and Garden in Hertfordshire ? the site of the artist's former home.

The architects focused on reusing and extending existing buildings, thereby minimising impact on the estate and preserving the environment, which was cherished by the Moore family.
Moore, who passed away in 1986, was best known for his large and semi-abstract bronze sculptures, which are synonymous with the modernist movement.

"Moore has often been described as parsimonious, making do with what was found, and that approach extended to this estate," Hugh Broughton told Dezeen. "There is therefore a degree of symmetry in the strategy taken to reuse existing buildings rather than make new."
The new visitors centre, an extension of the existing Dane Tree House ? acquired by the Foundation in 1977 ? includes a shop and cafe; a space for education and events; meeting rooms and improved working spaces for staff.
The cafe's floor-to-ceiling windows open on to the artist's 70-acre estate of sculpture gardens and studios.

"The design of the visitor centre was developed to reinforce relationships of the visitor with the sculpture and the landscape, hence the extent of glazing and the way in which the gardens come right up to the elevations," Broughton said.
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