Milton Keynes Theatre & Art Gallery Complex
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Large art gallery, flexible auditorium suitable for drama and music, tourist information centre and a multi-storey carpark
The initial brief asked for gallery space to be incorporated in the foyer area. Fuelled by a conviction that ‘Milton Keynes had the artistic energy and interest to warrant a gallery’, those involved in the project developed the brief to include a separate building with three different gallery spaces providing a total of 300m2 of display space
In 2004, ABA helped Milton Keynes Gallery alter the foyer area and the external appearance of the Main Building with the artist Michael Craig-Martin.
Data
- Begun: Jul 1997
- Completed: 1999
- Floor area: 18,780m2
- Sector: Arts and culture
- Total cost: £24.5M
- Funding: Lottery Funding
- Tender date: Apr 1996
- Procurement: JCT 80
- Address: 3 Theatre Walk , Milton Keynes , MK9 3PX, United Kingdom
Professional Team
- Architect: LCE andrzej blonski Architects
- Project architects: Andrzej Blonski, Kutbuddin Nadiadi
- Client: Milton Keynes Borough Council
- Quantity surveyor: Gardiner & Theobald
- Planning supervisor: Gardiner & Theobald
- Structural engineer: Whitby Bird and Partners
- Theatre consultant: Carr & Angier
- Acoustic consultant: Arup Acoustics
- Consultant: Arup Facade Engineering
- Gallery Designer: Antonia Payne
- Main contractor: Laing Eastern
Suppliers
- Ironmongery: Allgood
- External Render: Red Bank Manufacturing Co Ltd
- Cladding and glazing: English Architectural Glazing
- Polished plaster: Armourcoat UK
- Internal finishes: Grants of Shoreditch Ltd
- Main Entrance Woven Metal Fabric Cladding: Boundary Metal Ltd
- External Folding Doors and Roller Shutters: Envirodoor Ltd
- Louvres: Accent Hansen