White Cube, Mason’s Yard, is located in the heart of St James’ and combines a contemporary gallery space with specialist viewing facilities and staff offices for a busy private art collector and agent. The building is stunningly finished in glass and brushed concrete.
The crisp exterior hides a complex steel skeleton, designed to provide column free space and the ability to hang modern sculpture from any point on the internal walls and ceilings. In addition, the basement gallery extends across the entire footprint of the building and descends six metres below ground level, almost adjacent to the surrounding domestic scaled buildings in Mason’s Yard.
To optimise the client’s desire to modify the design during its development (principally to reflect the constantly changing contemporary art market) we established a negotiated procurement using the New Engineering partnering Contract. This allowed the project to start before the design was complete so that the contractor could get ahead with demolition of the existing structures on suite and the formation of the deep basement.
We subsequently provided project management services for the delivery of the completed building and administration of the contract.
