The Box Plymouth Cultural Centre
The Box Plymouth Cultural Centre Building, St Luke?s Church Renovation Images, Devon
The Box and St Luke?s Church, Plymouth
28 Sep 2020
The Box, Plymouth
Architects: Atkins
Location: Plymouth, Devon, South West England, UK
Project Overview:
The Box is a £46m project to transform Plymouth?s Grade II listed museum, library and adjacent church into a cutting-edge facility, boasting interactive collections housed in an exhibition space three times greater than the site?s original size.
The aim of the project was to bring together disparate heritage collections, contemporary arts and the archive into a single entity ? a unique proposition in the UK.
Atkins multi-disciplinary design team provided the creative and technical expertise to enable the realisation of this transformational construction project for Plymouth City Council. The scheme comprised the alteration, refurbishment and extension to three Grade II listed buildings to incorporate museum exhibition halls, GIS compliant art galleries and specialist PD 5454 archival stores, while externally a new piazza has been created to unify the heritage and arts complex. The Box provides a heart to the new Cultural Quarter of the city, and its 2020 opening aligns with the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower sailing to America.
Key Facts:
A £40m project to transform Plymouth?s Grade II listed museum, library and adjacent church into a cutting-edge facility boasting 7 galleries and 6 exhibition areas, in a space three times the ...
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