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We ONLY ON RIBAJ.COM Glasgow School of Art at the start of reconstruction, fol- also cover the brand-new architecture school building in He captures the lowing the disastrous fire of May 2014. If ever there was Bath on page 16, the expanded Kettle’s Yard art gallery a touchstone project for architects, it is this: back in 2009 in Cambridge page 8 and – in a huge leap of scale – get essence of their it topped our ‘Stirling of Stirlings’ poll of most-admired to grips with the monolithic new American embassy in buildings at a buildings built during the existence of the RIBA. We London on page 22. • particular moment in time, seen after many decades of use and abuse and set against the found soundtrack Reconstruction of the library begins at of the building’s Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, p32. environment Pamela Buxton joins Heinz Emigholz’s architectural tour: ribaj.com /emigholz ALAN MCATEER ribaj.com The RIBA Journal March 2018 08 Buildings Gallery Private view Jamie Fobert battles to retain Kettle’s Yard’s domestic spirit Words: Isabelle Priest Photographs: Hufton+Crow Kettle’s Yard – the former home of collector and gallery reopened last month after being Yellowish brick walls, the same floors, even and curator Jim Ede (1895-1990) in Cam- closed for two years, yet it still only expects 1970s narrow-framed dark-stained timber- bridge – has a reach in the collective imag- to increase its footfall by 20k to about 100k glazed entrance doors, can be seen in hous- ination far beyond what its modest visitor a year. A jump in percentage terms perhaps, es, schools and doctor’s surgeries all over the numbers suggest. Architects call it a hidden but not in absolute numbers. county. You need something not like that gem. Artists and galleries reference it all over Truth is, I have known Kettle’s Yard a placed alongside to realise how special it is. the country. York Art Gallery installed a faux long time too, but I never really understood In Ede’s words, Kettle’s Yard is: ‘A space, living room after it to show, like Ede did, ‘how what the fuss was about. For me the Victori- an ambiance and a home – as well as a way of people can live with ceramics’. Meanwhile at an cottage Jim saved from demolition in the life.’ He filled the cottage with art and objects, RIBA Journal we had a veritable argument 1950s and the Leslie Martin and David Ow- manmade and natural, believing strongly about who should cover its new Jamie Fob- ers 1970s extension seemed very much of that art should be enjoyed at home, not only ert Architects refurbishment. The house the local vernacular – both old and modern. on gallery walls. You’ll find a Brancusi on a Two spacious new contemporary galleries have been built. Above The Victorian cottages as the Edes found them in 1956. The RIBA Journal March 2018 ribaj.com 09 IN NUMBERS 1,080m² gross internal floor area £11m project cost £5,000 cost per m² Left The refurbishment takes over the entire Victorian terrace on Castle Street and replaces a 1980s Martin extension to the side. grand piano across the room from a piece of Jamie Fobert Architects came to the pro- Leaving the cottage and Martin extension Victorian glassware and selection of precisely ject in 2004. By then, two further extensions alone, Fobert has demolished everything be- collected pebbles arranged in a swirl. Floor- by Martin as well as another by Bland Brown tween the 1970s extension and the retained boards are left bare, brick fireplaces exposed, & Cole saw two infill projects, a two-storey Victorian facade on Castle Street. In its place rough joinery painted white. Today it shouts extension and the partial takeover of a Victo- he has inserted two contemporary galleries at of the ascetic Scandi filling Pinterest boards rian terrace on Castle Street, while a fire in the ground level, an educational wing, a research but it was avant-garde then. other half of the terrace gave the museum an and archive room on the first floor, and a lec- From 1957 Ede began opening the house opportunity to take over that too as an educa- ture room and offices above.