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The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery is purpose-built and named after the late English artist Barbara Hepworth, who was born in Wakefield in 1903. Most of the rooms on the upper level house the gallery’s permanent collections, which range from large-scale sculptures and plasters by Hepworth and others, to highly light-sensitive works on paper from the city of Wakefield’s collection of British art. The remaining rooms host a programme of temporary exhibitions. Open doorways link the gallery spaces into fluid and varied sequences: walls meet at diverse angles, with variations in size and ceiling pitch in each room. Daylight is introduced through skylights. Several of the galleries feature a large picture window framing an aspect of the surroundings, intended to link Hepworth’s sculptures to the landscape in which she grew up. In particular, they offer views of the River Calder and the medieval Chantry Chapel. Gross floor area: 5,232 m². Galleries floor area: 1,600 m².