Waddington Galleries
Leslie Waddington
London 1983
Leslie Waddington
London 1983
The aim here is a condition in which the
architecture appears absent. The front elevation is composed of a
simple glass wall with minimal framing and a near invisible door. The
interior is a spare composition of timber floors and white walls which
appear to float. All distraction has been removed, the main staircase,
for example, being scrupulously screened from view.
Issues of circulation are critical in galleries – you want people to
see everything, but you do not want them to feel coerced. Here the
diagonal inflection of the space encourages the viewer to move
naturally through each of the three self-contained galleries.