The new studio for the English artist Antony Gormley is set amid the rail yards and industrial buildings north of London's King Cross Station. In order to accommodate the diverse and specific ways that Gormley works, the studio attempts to create light and open spaces providing, space for drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, casting and photography. Looking to satisfy Gromley's main requirements, of a space large enough to construct his huge installations and yet be somewhere intimate and personal enough to conceive his next artistic projects. The resulting studio references and abstracts the large-scale industrial architectural vernacular of the surrounding buildings. The building is given distinctiveness by the silhouette of its pitched roofs. The building is accessed via a large yard, left open for the assemblage of larger pieces. This space is broken by a huge set of galvanized steel staircases that connect the yard to the domestic scale studio and office areas. In-between the staircases are a set of 4m high-galvanized steel doors that provide easy access into the studio space. In fact galvanized steel has been used throughout the building and reflects the close collaboration between artist and architect, in the use of materials and finishes, to create an external envelope that provides a natural solidity.
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