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“The
Foundation’s focus is to explore the interplay
between art and neuroscience. The Institute is designed
to be a home for this exploration, and where better
to start than with James Turrell.” Louise Blouin MacBain |
The Institute is one of the largest non-government funded,
not-for-profit cultural spaces in London and is a showcase
for both established and emerging contemporary artists, think-tanks
and artistic performances of all forms, whilst also providing
a home for the Louise T Blouin Foundation and its work. Louise
T Blouin Macbain’s £20 million investment has transformed
a former coachworks into an important cultural arts space,
involving the local community and injecting capital into an
area currently undergoing regeneration and redevelopment.
The former coachworks of Barker & Co (coachbuilders for
Rolls Royce, Bentley and Daimler) has retained its 1920s industrial
façade, but architects Borgos Dance have given the interior
a complete redesign to maximise the building’s potential
and qualities of light. The re-sculpted interior provides a
dramatic triple height 35 ft entrance hall, an adaptable 5,000
sq ft gallery space and café on the ground floor. The
first and second floors have been designed to provide office
and further facades of the building, using all 80 of the existing
external windows. Each window, lit from within, acts as an
intelligent unit, controlled individually or as a whole to
create an ever-changing artwork on the façade of the
building.
If you are interested in hiring the Louise T Blouin Institute
space for meetings, receptions, cocktail parties, seminars,
lectures or other events, please call 0207 985 9600 for
further information. |
