The Photographers’ Gallery is located at a crossroads, between Soho and Oxford Street. The corner site is visible in a glimpse view through the continuous shop frontage of Oxford Street. Ramillies Street is approached down a short flight of steps, leading to a quieter world behind the scenes of London life, a laneway with warehouses and backstage delivery doors.
The brick-warehouse steel-frame building is extended to minimise the increase in load on the existing structure and foundations. This extended volume houses large gallery spaces. A close control gallery is located within the fabric of the existing building.
- American Academy of Arts and Letters 2015 Awards: O’Donnell + Tuomey
Dublin, 29 Oct – 9 Nov 2015
The lightweight extension is clad in a dark rendered surface that steps forward from the face of the existing brickwork. The street front café is finished with black polished terrazzo. Untreated hardwood timber framed elements are detailed to slide into the wall thickness flush with the rendered surface. The composition and detail of the hardwood screens and new openings give a crafted character to the façade.
A deep cut in the ground floor façade was made to reveal the café. The ground floor slab was cut out to lead down to the basement bookshop. An east-facing picture window and the north-light periscope window to the city skyline were added in response to the specific character of the site.
Publications:
- London Guide, Architectour, Virginia Durán ↗︎
- AV Monographs, 2016
- Interpreting Site, Studies in Perception, Representation, and Design, Routledge, Genevieve S. Baudoin PDF
- Irish Architecture 2014, The AAI Awards, Architectural Association of Ireland, Michael Hayes (Editor)
- The Irish Times, 26.02. 2014, Building a profile: Irish architects making their mark on London, Frank McDonald PDF
- Irish Architecture, The RIAI Annual Review, Vol. 4, RIAI, Sandra Andrea O’Connell (Editor)
- Space for Architecture, 2014
- Irish Architecture, The RIAI Annual Review, Vol. 3, RIAI, Sandra Andrea O’Connell (Editor)
- Nevertheless, There is This Thing Called Architecture, 2013
- Architecture Ireland, 21.09. 2012, The Photographer's Gallery - London PDF
- Blueprint, Issue 316, July 2012, The Photographer's Gallery, Feature, Owen Pritchard
- Architects’ Journal, 07.06. 2012, Picture imperfect, (cover), Rory Olcayto ↗︎
- The Independent, 06.06. 2012, The Photographers’ Gallery, A building that extols the calm virtues of still life, Jay Merrick ↗︎
- RIBA Journal, June 2012, Watch this space: Photographers’ Gallery, Hugh Pearman PDF
- Architecture Today, June 2012, Viewfinder: The Photographers’ Gallery by O’Donnell & Tuomey, Ros Diamond PDF
- Plan Magazine, June/July 2012, Good design in the frame PDF
- BD Magazine, 23.05. 2012, The Photographers’ Gallery by O’Donnell + Tuomey, Oliver Wainwright ↗︎€
- The Observer, 20.05. 2012, Photographers’ Gallery extension – review, Rowan Moore ↗︎
- It’s nice that, 18.05. 2012, Oil be damned! The brand new Photographers’ Gallery presents an epic Edward Burtynsky, Bryony Quinn ↗︎
- The Guardian, 17.05. 2012, The Photographers’ Gallery – review, Adrian Searle ↗︎
- Wallpaper*, 16.05. 2012, The Photographers’ Gallery reopens in London, Ellie Stathaki ↗︎
- Financial Times, 14.05. 2012, Photographers’ Gallery, London, Edwin Heathcote
- Architects’ Journal, 11.05. 2012, Wraps taken off O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Photographers’ Gallery, Richard Waite ↗︎
- London Evening Standard, 09.05. 2012, The new Photographers’ Gallery, Kieran Long ↗︎
- Icon, May 2012, The new Photographers’ Gallery, Johanna Agerman ↗︎
- The Guardian, 30.01. 2012, Photographers’ Gallery in London to reopen in May after £8.9m facelift, Mark Brown ↗︎
- Blueprint, Mar 9 2009, The Photographers’ Gallery Temporary Works, Gian Luca Amadei
- Design Week, 30.04.2009 2009, The Photographers’ Gallery settles in to its new building, Liz Farrelly ↗︎
- Design Week, 05.12.2008 2008, Photographers’ Gallery moves to new site, Emily Pacey ↗︎
- The London Paper, Dec 4 2007, Soho’s huge art space, Alexa Baracaia
- Building Magazine, Dec 14 2007, Pretty as a picture
- Design Week, Dec 13 2007, Plans exposed for the new Photographers’ Gallery, Sarah Woods ↗︎
- British Journal of Photography, Dec 12 2007, Photographers’ Gallery move is on, Diane Smyth
- The Independent, London, Dec 20 2007, Photo opportunity, Arifa Akbar
- BD Magazine, Dec 4 2007, O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Photographers’ Gallery wins planning, Heidi Ancell ↗︎
- Evening Standard, Dec 4 2007, News: £15.5m photo gallery developing
- Architects’ Journal, 13.12.07 2007, Kieran Long