East Midlands Art

摘要

'Nice building,' says a visitor as he enters Clash Architects' Level Centre, an arts facility on the fringes of the village of Rowsley in Derbyshire. Compared to its neighbours, a ramshackle collection of industrial sheds, it's hard to disagree. The Level Centre's sculptural quality, set against the messiness around it and the hobbit-like scenery of the Dales behind, is actually quite shocking. Apart from a brick wall that faces its ugly neighbours and a timber-lined soffit at the entrance, the building's tightly grouped, expressive forms (arcs, oblongs, cuboids and triangular extrusions) are entirely clad in standing seam zinc. More shocking, however, is that Clash Architects designed this useful, oddly alluring building for just ￡850,000.