Opened to the public in 2017, the new Tate St Ives includes a large contemporary gallery, education spaces, transition spaces and offices. Situated on a sensitive site in this small, historic town on the beautiful Cornish coast, the new building is sunk deep into the cliffs, yet it benefits from strong, coastal natural light from above thanks to the insertion of rooflights. The exterior has been designed to respond to the vernacular architecture of St Ives and the natural forms of the coastline; the space and light within belie the discretion of the building’s external form. The new gallery is a single, column-free, 500m2 volume, equal in size to all five galleries of the original building. Neutral in detail, and with the ability to be configured into multiple arrangements of six smaller galleries, it is designed to accommodate the many and varied practices of contemporary art. The entire roof construction is in in-situ cast concrete, continuing the rough no-nonsense sensibility of St Ives. Externally the roof is treated as a continuation of the landscape of the Cornish coastline. A gentle set of stairs and public spaces weave between the elevated granite volumes of the light chambers amid Cornish wildflowers, meeting an existing path which leads to the sea. In reference to the history of ceramicists in St Ives, such as Bernard Leach, the building is clad in shiplapped ceramic tiles, handmade by Froyle Tiles. Their clay is pale sandy yellow, with blue and green glazes that capture the ever-changing Cornish weather and blend into the hues of the sea beyond. In form and materiality, the pavilion has a quality and richness of expression appropriate to and indicative of its gallery use. Tate St Ives was shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2018, and won the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018.