Art in Architecture

Date: Tuesday, 20th November 2007
Time: 12.00 - 14.00 hrs
Venue: Buchanan House, seminar room K505, 58 Port Dundas Road, Glasgow G4 0HG

Programme
12.00 Registration and buffet lunch
12.30 Welcome
12.35 Presentation
13.35 Questions and answers
14.00 Close

Summary

This presentation summarises HLM’s recent experience in integrating public arts projects within the design and procurement of major acute healthcare buildings throughout the UK. Specific reference will be made to hospitals in Middlesbrough, London, Londonderry, and Glasgow in which significant Healing Arts Strategies have been incorporated at an early stage in the architectural design with the objective of creating non institutional and therapeutic environments which will enhance the healing process and maximise the overall quality of spatial experience in public buildings of this type.

The description of these projects will encompass key aspects of public art procurement in the healthcare sector in terms of curatorship, consultation, and funding and will highlight the wide range of different approaches and media currently being applied in this particular category of building.

In Middlesbrough, South Tees, the existing hospital has been reconfigured and rebranded as the Captain James Cook University Hospital in honour of the famous explorer and adventurer who was born locally. The “Captain Cook” theme has been adopted as the basis for a dynamic and unifying integrated arts strategy which has resulted in a series of interesting events and arts installations throughout the hospital.

At the new Brent Emergency Care and Diagnostic Centre on the Central Middlesex Hospital in west London, a comprehensive arts strategy based on the theme of “ Healing in the City” has been devised to reflect the diversity of the surrounding multi ethnic inner city community in a manner which complements and enhances the architectural design.

In Londonderry in Northern Ireland, the redevelopment of the existing Altnagelvin Hospital has involved the integration of some major existing artworks in a new setting as well as the creation of a dynamic arts strategy through which our architects have worked with a number of local artists to explore the themes of “Light, Nature, and Place” which are specific to the Altnagelvin site and its history.

The design of the New Victoria Hospital in Glasgow has been based on the concept of “The Hospital in the Park” – a theme which emphasises the qualities of therapy and sustainability inherent in the building. These characteristics have been explored further in a series of artworks which articulate and enhance the main public spaces in and around the new hospital.

Speakers

Leslie Welch, HLM Architects
Leslie Welch was born in Glasgow and is a graduate of Strathclyde University. Based in London since 1973, he has worked as lead architect on numerous large acute hospitals in diverse locations such as Bournemouth, Medway, Bath, and Londonderry, and has been closely involved in two of the largest healthcare developments in Scotland at Dunfermline and East Kilbride. His current portfolio includes the design and delivery of specialised emergency and ambulatory care facilities in London and Glasgow. He is particularly interested in the therapeutic value of Art in the creation of a healing environment.

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