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| Civic Trust Award RIBA National Award Civic Trust Special Award for Culture & Regeneration Shortlisted - Royal Fine Arts Trust Building of the Year Award Celebration of Excellence in Design Award Stratford on Avon District Council |
“Compton Verney Manor House & Art Gallery is not only an excellent example of design excellence, but also underlines the enormous contribution the historic environment and culture can make to regeneration” Andrew McIntosh - Minister for the Media & Heritage Department for Culture, Media & Sport | |
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| Compton Verney is a new art gallery in Warwickshire,
which opened in 2004. It was founded by British philanthropist Sir
Peter Moores through the Peter Moores Foundation as a way of offering
visitors informal and enjoyable ways of experiencing art. |
The gallery houses a historic permanent collection of art, much of which has never been on public view before. It also runs a programme of temporary exhibitions and specially commissioned contemporary art. | |
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| Stanton has restored and extended the Grade 1 listed mansion, built by Vanbrugh and Robert Adam. Within the new building is a bookshop, public cloakroom, staff changing rooms, staff catering facilities, a goods hoist, kitchen and café. Beneath this is a fully environmentally controlled temporary exhibitions gallery at the first floor level. | LAPD designed a custom aluminium profile that runs through each gallery. This generates dimmable ambient lighting linked to a solar cell to simulate daylight. To ensure the correct lamp positions were identified within the channel, a full on-site mock up was used during development. Profiled diffusers give uniform distribution to the scheme from an undetectable source. | |
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| Different coloured temperature lamps are circuited within the mansion to generate a range of daylight effects. The system integrates smoke detection, sprinkler and PA systems. | Pockets of light dapple areas of interest such as the entrance staircase leading visitors down to the museum shop. The feel of the height of the upper galleries is raised through the application of dimmable concealed fluorescent lamps. | |
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Compton Verney Architect
- Stanton Williams
