One of my favourite sculpture centres, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), is to get a new neighbour on Wakefield’s waterfront. The Hepworth Wakefield, named after the sculptress Dame Barbara Hepworth, is to be a £25m gallery and centre for creative arts.

With £4.9m worth of grants already secured from the Arts Council England Capital programme and the Heritage Lottery Fund, the gallery is being designed by David Chipperfield and is set to open in 2008.

The gallery is part of a major redevelopment of the Calder and Hebble waterfront which includes offices and residential facilities reports the Yorkshire Today website.

Read the story here

YSP website here

Pictures from the very wonderful YSP here

Hepworth’s work here

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