I haven’t been to Hepworth Wakefield since COVID and indeed since Tom Stuart-Smith created a garden to its south, filling the space between the gallery and the adjacent mills.

I was incredibly impressed by how well David Chipperfield’s design has worn: its sense of complexity of internal gallery spaces, the quality of light in its galleries, its reticent monumentality.

One of the strange things about it is that it is exactly as it was originally drawn for the competition entry – a set of complex interlocking polyhedral spaces. 

£35 million, more than double the cost of Turner Contemporary, but very well worth it:-

The mills are due to be renovated:-

The gallery mirrors some of its industrial surroundings:-