Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

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The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts is a landmark modernist museum and gallery in Norwich, England, renowned for its innovative high-tech architectural design and significant art collections.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art museum
gallery
modernist building
university museum
affiliation University of East Anglia
architect Foster Associates
Norman Foster
architecturalStyle high-tech architecture
modernist architecture
category art museum in England
museum in Norwich
collectionType contemporary art
decorative arts
ethnographic art
modern art
sculpture
visual arts
country United Kingdom
designFeature flexible open-plan interior
integrated services in external ducts
single-span steel structure
donor Lisa Sainsbury
Robert Sainsbury
hasCollection Sainsbury Collection
hasExhibition permanent collection displays
temporary exhibitions
hasFunction art exhibition space
research centre
storage for art collections
teaching space
heritageDesignation Grade II* listed building
heritageDesignationDate 2012
inception 1974
locatedIn Norfolk
Norwich
locatedOn campus of the University of East Anglia
materialUsed aluminium
glass
steel
namedAfter Lisa Sainsbury
Robert Sainsbury
notableWorkContained works by Alberto Giacometti
works by Francis Bacon
works by Henry Moore
openingDate 1978
operator University of East Anglia
recognizedAs Grade II* listed building
landmark of high-tech architecture
region East of England

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Norman Foster notableWork Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Norman Foster designed Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Sainsbury family associatedWith Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Foster Associates notableWork Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
this entity surface form: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich