Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street
2001–2005
Location: London
Client: Gagosian Gallery
Project Status: Built
The Gagosian Gallery at Britannia Street in Kings Cross is the second London Gallery that Caruso St John have designed for Gagosian, in a working relationship of long standing.
It provides a suite of large, naturally lit rooms at ground level, which accommodate exhibitions of the scale and ambition for which Gagosian’s New York and Los Angeles galleries are well known.
The ground floor of 1,400 square meters provides three connected galleries, accommodating the possibility of a large single exhibition or smaller parallel show. The largest gallery, 28m long and 5.5m high, is a new building, while the other galleries are within existing structures. Different natural lighting and subtle differences in construction between new and existing spaces provide a range of gallery conditions within a connected family of rooms. All the galleries have full environmental controls and museum standard floor and wall loading capacity. New offices and viewing rooms are located on the first floor, above the gallery.