Architect behind the Tate St Ives art gallery in Cornwall,which was opened in 1993When a novel Cornish outpost of the Tate Gallery was commissioned in 1989, hoping to attract 70000 visitors a year, and the conception of building a major cultural attraction to stimulate the local economy was barely understood. A competition for the former gasworks site was won by the life/work partnership of Eldred Evans and David Shalev,who based their design on the site’s former foundations to keep within budget.
A circular entrance reused the footings of the gasholder. It was large because the cost of flooring-in the broad drum was too expensive, but the full-height windows gave stunning views across Porthmeor beach and the architects knew that a similar drum had worked well at the Cardiff National museum.
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Source: guardian.co.uk