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News Update - Apr 2009:
£16m building by ODonnell + Tuomey Architects replaced with £3m remodellling
The Photographers'
Gallery - Ramillies St towards Great Marlborough St:

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London: Tuesday 4 December: Details were announced today of a £15.5
million
new home for The Photographers Gallery, the UKs national centre
for the promotion
of photography, to be built on a prime site in Soho, due to open in 2010.
The new gallery will be designed by internationally acclaimed architects,
ODonnell +
Tuomey, as their first major UK commission.
With around half a million visitors a year, The Photographers Gallery
has outgrown its
current facilities at 5 and 8 Great Newport Street, first opened at number
8, the site of
a former Lyons Tea Bar, in 1971.
The new development will be located on a prime site in Ramillies Street,
in the heart
of Soho. Spread over six floors, the development will double the current
exhibition
space, provide state of the art technology for education, a new on-line
resource
centre and a street level café and bar, allowing the Gallery to
play an expanded role
in the cultural development of this vibrant part of Londons West
End.
Alongside New Yorks International Centre for Photography, Rotterdams
Nederlands
Fotomuseum and La Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris,
The
Photographers Gallery is one of the worlds leading centres
for the promotion of
contemporary photography. It opened on 14 January 1971 with The Concerned
Photographer, an exhibition curated by Cornell Capa, the American photo
curator and
younger brother of photographer Robert Capa. The Gallery has introduced
the work
of many leading photographers during its 36-year history including presenting
the first
UK solo shows of Juergen Teller, Robert Capa, Sebastião Salgado
and Andreas
Gursky. The £30,000 Deutsche Börse International Photography
Prize is hosted and
produced annually by The Photographers Gallery.
Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers Gallery, said today:
This is a proud
moment in our history. We are delighted that we are moving forward with
our plans to
create a building worthy of London as one of the worlds great centres
for photography
and which can do justice to the development to the creative medium of
our time.
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