The Queens’ Diamond Jubilee Gallery
Capisco provided patination work on 10cm thick steel supports for the interior of The Queens’ Diamond Jubilee Gallery.
This was part of the biggest building project at Westminster Abbey since the 18th Century, converting an 800-year-old storage space into a modern gallery and the construction of a new tower on the exterior of the building. The steel supports that were blackened by our team house a variety of precious artefacts.
Located high 16m above the Abbey floor the gallery pairs modernist steel with traditional stained glass, oak and stone. The steel supports have a subtle presence that doesn’t scream out as being a modernist feature intruding into their medieval surroundings.
Client: Westminster Abbey
Architect: Ptolemy Dean
Exhibition Design: MUMA (McInnes Usher McKnight Architects)
Material: Steel
Patina code : Blackened/Patinated Steel
Project type: Completed in our works
Location: Westminster Abbey, London
