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25th July 2025
This is Tate St Ives, the
C20 Society's choice for 1993 in its book 100 Buildings 100 Years (2014). The gallery replaced the town's gasworks which were built in 1835 so would have been known to Virginia Woolf. The brief was to
design a building in a similar style to the gasworks so it includes the footprint of the circular gas holder. It transformed the fortunes of St Ives, and underlines the fact that English seaside architecture is still evolving, still creating new postcard views.
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