The Hepworth Wakefield is the relocation and expansion of the city's existing art gallery to the conservation area at the headland of the River Calder.
The gallery's existing collection contains mayor British and European artists and The Hepworth Wakefield will additionally house unique collection of thirty original plasters by the locally born artist Barbara Hepworth.
The Gallery building is formed a conglomeration of different sized trapezoidal blocks, responding to the scale and rooflines of the surrounding small scale industrial buildings.
With water on two sides and visibility from all directions, the site - and therefore the building- has no front or back elevation.
