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Barbara Hepworth Building
Art, Design & Architecture Development in West Yorkshire, North England, UK – design by AHR Architects
28 Nov 2018
Barbara Hepworth Building, University of Huddersfield
Barbara Hepworth Building at the University of Huddersfield
Design: AHR, Architects
Architects AHR attend topping out ceremony for University?s new £30m building
28th of November 2018 – As the five-storey, 7,500 square metre Barbara Hepworth Building takes shape, the University was pleased to welcome AHR?s Gurminder Sanghera and Andrew France and Dr Sophie Bowness, granddaughter of Wakefield sculptor Barbara Hepworth, to the ?topping out? ceremony.
Construction of the University of Huddersfield?s new £30 million centre for the study of art, design and architecture is months ahead of schedule, and it has witnessed an unusual ?topping out? ceremony conducted by the granddaughter of Dame Barbara Hepworth, the famous artist who has given the building its name.
Dr Sophie Bowness ? who is an art historian and a trustee of the world-famous Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield ? was invited to turn a bolt on one of the 146 aluminium panels that will be fixed to the glazed walls of the new building. Their function will be to reduce solar glare, but architects AHR have ensured that they are also an artistic adornment.

One of the great sculptors of the 20th century, Barbara Hep...