The Hepworth Wakefield: Yorkshire's major new art gallery

VIII Design by David Chipperfield
The Hepworth Wakefield has been designed by one of the UK’s leading architects,
David Chipperfield CBE.
David Chipperfield studied at Kingston School of Art and the Architectural
Association in London. After graduating he worked at the practices of Douglas
Stephen, Norman Foster, and Richard Rogers before setting up his own practice,
David Chipperfield Architects, in 1984. The practice currently has approximately
195 staff at its offices in London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai. David Chipperfield
Architects has won over 40 international design competitions and numerous
awards for design excellence, including the 2007 RIBA Stirling Prize, the most
prestigious prize in UK architecture.
The Hepworth Wakefield will take its place amongst David Chipperfield Architects’
distinguished portfolio of completed projects, which includes the River and Rowing
Museum in Henley-on-Thames, the America’s Cup Building ‘Veles e Vents’ in
Valencia, and the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, Germany.
Current projects include the restoration and repair of the Neues Museum in Berlin,
the extension of the San Michele Cemetery in Venice, the new City of Justice in
Barcelona, and two major museum expansions in the US – the Saint Louis Art
Museum, and the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center.