Jamie Fobert Architects has revealed the newly designed Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge. The redesign and extension of the existing complex has opened up a new entrance, two new galleries, an expanded education suite, as well as a new café.
The much-loved Kettle’s Yard, which holds collections of British and European modern art including Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Joan Miro, has been under development for two years – and its re-opening to the public on 10 February 2018 is greatly anticipated.
With his perceptive approach to heritage and ability to make conservation contemporary, Jamie Fobert is fast emerging as a first choice architect for cultural institutions across the UK – his practice extended Tate St Ives in 2016 and has just been announced to be heading up the National Portrait Gallery's transformation scheduled to begin 2020.
The new facade of Kettle's Yard in Cambridge designed by Jamie Fobert Architects. Photography: Hufton + Crow
At Kettle's Yard, sensitive restructuring has smoothly linked up the new spaces to the original house owned by Tate curator and art collector Jim Ede (1895-1990) and the 1970s extension by architects Sir Leslie Martin and David Owers, allowing the institution to expand into its role as a leading national institution.
The new Clore Learning Studio will allow Kettle’s Yard’s learning programmes and activities for young people to increase by nearly 200 per cent, the new research space will be accessible for academic research and community projects, while the new café will serve as a creative and social space for the public to enjoy.
New configuration of space connects the exhibition and education spaces to the existing architecture/ Photography: Hufton + Crow
Located in central Cambridge, Kettle’s Yard is part of the consortium of the University of Cambridge Museums and will open to the public on Saturday 10 February.
Jamie Fobert Architects' sensitive restructuring has smoothly linked up the new spaces to the original house and the 1970s extension
Views of Kettle’s Yard House
Art collectors Jim and Helen Ede donated Kettle’s Yard to the University of Cambridge in 1966. The house contains works by Constantin Brancusi, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, David Jones and Christopher Wood amongst others
