NationMaster - Encyclopedia: The Hayward

The Hayward is an art gallery within Southbank Centre, situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. Its location places it alongside several other major arts venues, including the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room and the Royal National Theatre. Hayward Gallery, London. ... Hayward Gallery, London. ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ... Southbank Centre is a complex of arts buildings located in London, England on the South Bank of the River Thames between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge. ... The National Theatre is one of the collection of arts buildings that make up the South Bank Centre. ... The Thames (pronounced //) is a river flowing through southern England, in its lower reaches flowing through London into the sea. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 kmÂ² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2006 est. ... The Royal Festival Hall is a concert, dance and talks venue within the South Bank Centre in London, England. ... The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, which hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. ... The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the South Bank Centre, one of central Londons leading cultural complexes. ... The Royal National Theatre from Waterloo Bridge The Royal National Theatre is a building complex and theatre company located on the South Bank in London, England immediately east of the southern end of Waterloo Bridge. ...

The Hayward opened on 9 July 1968 and its powerful massing and concrete construction makes it a good example of Brutalist architecture. It was designed by the Department of Architecture and Civic Design of the Greater London Council, and is named after Sir Isaac Hayward, a former leader of the London County Council, the GLC's predecessor. Joanna Drew was the founding Director. Ralph Rugoff is the current Director (as of mid 2006). July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... UnitÃ© dHabitation, Marseille (Le Corbusier 1952) Brutalism is an architectural style that spawned from the modernist architectural movement and which flourished from the 1950s to the 1970s. ... Arms of the Greater London Council The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. ... Sir Isaac James Hayward (usually known as Ike Hayward) (November 17, 1884 - January 3, 1976) was Leader of the London County Council from 1947 until it was abolished in 1965. ... London County Council emblem is still seen today on buildings, especially housing, from that era London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London from 1889 until 1965, when it was replaced by the Greater London Council. ...

The Hayward hosts three/four major temporary exhibitions each year and does not house any permanent collections. From 1968 to 1986, the gallery was managed by the Arts Council of Great Britain but management then passed to Southbank Centre. The gallery is also the base of the Arts Council's National Touring Exhibitions programme and until 2002 the Arts Council Collection. Unusually for a British gallery receiving state funding support the Hayward has an admission charge. The gallery exhibition policy embraces visual art from all periods and past shows have included the works of Leonardo da Vinci, Edvard Munch and the French Impressionists but recently the programme has tended to concentrate on surveys of contemporary art. The Arts Council of Great Britain was a Quango dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Britain. ... Southbank Centre is a complex of arts buildings located in London, England on the South Bank of the River Thames between Hungerford Bridge and Waterloo Bridge. ... National Touring Exhibitions is a programme managed and funded by the Arts Council England that it aims to provide access to high-quality contemporary and historical exhibitions throughout the UK. The programme organises 2-3 major exhibitions a year and has a further dozen that require minimal technical support. ... Leonardo da Vinci statue outside the Uffizi, Florence Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 â€“ May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician and writer. ... Self Portrait, 1881-1882 Edvard Munch (IPA: , December 12, 1863 â€“ January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist painter and printmaker, and an important forerunner for Expressionistic art. ... Contemporary art refers to recently produced visual art. ...

It has held two surveys of works from the Arts Council Collection: British art 1940–1980 and How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art. The Arts Council Collection is the largest loan collection of modern and contemporary British art in the world. ...

Design

The design brief was for five gallery spaces, two levels of indoor galleries and three outdoor sculpture courts (the massive concrete trays at the upper level) in order to house the Arts Council collection. The intended outdoor display of sculpture against the background of the London skyline appears to have been impractical and the sculpture courts are unused.

The two levels of the Hayward open to the public are linked by a pair of cast concrete staircases. These staircases, and lavatories at an intermediate level, are accommodated in a concrete box in between the eastern and western parts of the indoor galleries. One of these staircases also runs down to street level with access (closed) to Belvedere Road; the other extends down into the private entrance foyer on the north side of the building. The almost hidden private entrance is located below the foyer and external walkway on the north facade, near the overhanging Purcell Room auditorium. The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the South Bank Centre, one of central Londons leading cultural complexes. ...

The building originally had a very small main foyer area with cast aluminium doors similar to those of the Queen Elizabeth Hall. In 2003 the foyer of the building was remodelled with a larger glass-fronted foyer, designed by the Haworth Tompkins architectural practice and including a new oval shaped glass pavilion designed by Dan Graham above a new cafe in the projecting former office space at the east end. A shop has been added earlier inside the north-west end of the lower gallery. The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, which hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dan Graham (born 1942) is a U.S. artist He is based in New York, is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and a well-versed art critic and theorist. ...

The two upper galleries can use natural light from the glass pyramids on their flat roofs. Three concrete towers run vertically through the middle of the structure and contain the passenger lift, service lift and service duct. The kinetic light sculpture, which responds to wind force, on the roof of the passenger lift tower, was retained from an exhibition in 1971. why hello hello Sculptor redirects here. ...

The roof terrace at the south end and linking bridge to the Queen Elizabeth Hall foyer building is unfortunately closed to the public, which makes impossible some of the more interesting pedestrian circulation opportunities of the original design. The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, which hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. ...

The walkway above Belvedere Road with access from Waterloo Bridge widens to the west, following the line of Belvedere Road and accommodating the stairs to the external terrace, but following a different line from the upper gallery walls. The angled plan shape of the concrete sculpture tray in the south corner reflects the change in angle of the site between Waterloo Bridge and Festival Square. In this way, despite its seemingly uncompromising form, the building responds to its site. This article is about the bridge in London For other uses, see Waterloo Bridge (disambiguation). ...

The south-west corner of the building at street level is occupied by an electrical switch room. A car park occupies most of the lower ground level. A plant room occupies the lower level at the east end, above the car park, with a great concrete exhaust stack by Waterloo Bridge.

The high-level walkway system which linked the Hayward to the Hungerford Bridge area was partly removed in 2000, leaving a curious truncated end on Festival Square, and poorer access from Festival Square. This is exacerbated by the positioning of the car park and loading bay entrances, a legacy of the original 1960's design ideas about vertical separation of pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Among the tricks of the building is the different lines of the walls at ground level and walkway level on this facade, which reconcile the differing axes of the Hayward and the Royal Festival Hall. Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges, seen from the north The Hungerford Bridge runs over the River Thames in London, between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge. ... The Royal Festival Hall is a concert, dance and talks venue within the South Bank Centre in London, England. ...

Future

Southbank Centre and Arts Council are considering the future of the Hayward building, together with the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room which stand between the Hayward and the River Thames. A proposed scheme selected from an architectural competition, designed by Richard Rogers, in the early 1990s would have involved covering all three buildings in a great wave-shaped glass roof, which would have linked the Royal Festival Hall to Waterloo Bridge. This did not proceed due to its reliance on a high level of lottery funding and likely high cost. The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, which hosts daily classical, jazz, and avant-garde music and dance performances. ... The Purcell Room is a concert and performance venue which forms part of the South Bank Centre, one of central Londons leading cultural complexes. ... Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. ... The Royal Festival Hall is a concert, dance and talks venue within the South Bank Centre in London, England. ... This article is about the bridge in London For other uses, see Waterloo Bridge (disambiguation). ... A play here! sign outside a newsagent, incorporating the National Lotterys logo of a stylised hand with crossed fingers. ...

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