The Box and St Luke?s Church, Plymouth Cultural Centre Building, Devon Building Renovation Images
The Box and St Luke?s Church in Plymouth
5 Feb 2020
The Box in Plymouth
Architects: Atkins
Location: Plymouth, Devon, South West England, UK

The Box is the largest multi-disciplinary arts and heritage space opening anywhere in the UK next year and the biggest in the South West of England. Originally three separate buildings, its ground-breaking design has completely transformed, extended and combined Plymouth?s former City Museum and Art Gallery and Central Library buildings and restored St Luke?s Church to create a cutting-edge, interactive cultural centre with 13 new galleries and exhibition spaces, a striking elevated archive, a new glass atrium, learning and research facilities and the first public square to be built in Plymouth since 2004.
The £40million project has created a visitor destination for the region and beyond of nearly 8,000 sqm ? more than three times the size of the original museum. With a design approach that seamlessly combines the contemporary and the historic, The Box provides a new infrastructure to revolutionise the way Plymouth?s permanent collections and visiting exhibitions are managed and displayed.

Safeguarding Important Collections for Future Generations

A fundamental part of The Box?s innovative architecture is its elevated ?archive in the sky? which will be home to the majority of its collections. Atkins (one of the world?s leading architec...