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The Southbank Centre's concrete gallery of 1968, big contemporary shows under sixty-six pyramid rooflights, with no collection to distract it.
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The Hayward opened on 9 July 1968 as the exhibition hall of the South Bank arts complex, designed in the Greater London Council's own architects' department by a team that included Ron Herron and Warren Chalk of Archigram, and named after Isaac Hayward, the council leader who had pushed the whole site through. It is the purest piece of brutalism on the river, board-marked concrete inside and out, with walkways in the air and sixty-six glass pyramids on the roof to light the upper galleries, which leaked and were boarded over for decades until a rebuilding in 2018 gave the rooms their daylight back. It has no collection of its own and mounts three or four large shows a year of living or recent artists, from Bridget Riley and Antony Gormley to the group surveys that made its name, and it charges for them; the sculpture terraces outside are free.
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 – 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 – 18:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 – 18:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 – 18:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 20:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 – 18:00 |
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