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Explain The Differences Between The Hayward Gallery

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Explain the differences between the Hayward gallery (1968) and its South Bank neighbour, the Royal Festival Hall (1951) in terms of their planning and finishing and in the different ways they relate to their urban context. 
 While there are many similarities between the Hayward Gallery and Royal Festival Hall, there also are a number of differences in terms of planning and finishing in relation to urban context. Higgs and Hill built the Hayward Gallery, which opened on The 9th of July. It is an art gallery located in the Southbank Centre, which is a key arts venue in Central London. Until early 2011 the gallery was simply known as the Hayward. The Royal Festival Hall is situated adjacent to the Hayward Gallery. It is a famous dance, concert and talks venue with a capacity of 2500. It was the first the post-war building to listed as a Grade 1 building. The Hall officially opened on 3rd May 1951 and was built as part of the Festival of Britain for the London County Council. Planning plays an integral role in the procedure to achieve any given outcome. Without any planning it would be extremely challenging for the architects to succeed with their desired outcome. Nonetheless the finishing of any project is equally important as the planning. The finishing refers to materials that are used not only to …show more content…

On the one hand the initiative represented the largest project implying a complete overhaul of an inner city area. On the other hand the South Bank
 was important as a project that was invested with the utmost regard and with which a variety of interests and claims could be associated, ranging from the desire for a democratic egalitarian culture. These agendas, the urban plus the cultural, situate the project in related but distinct programmes of

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