21st Century Gallery in a ParkThe last three months

(May – July 2013)

The roof goes on the Study Centre

Preparing to replace the exhibition galleries roof-lights

The bare bones of the new

grand stair at the north end

of the Promenade

North west corner of the Lower Promenade

Window onto the park at the southern end of the Lower Promenade

Making new openings between the exhibition galleries

Insulation ready for installation under the exhibition galleries’ roof

The new staff entrance

Lifting shuttering into place to form the concrete walls of the Landscape

Gallery

View of the site at the end of June

Breaking through to the Gallery at first floor

level

Night-time view across

the site during the

Nikhil Chopra performance

The North promenade

leading through to the current

Whitworth building

New roof-lights ready

for installation in the exhibition

galleries

Services laid in trenches under the floor of the new collections

storage zone

Inside the Landscape

Gallery with window onto

the park

Spacious new Study

Centre

Steelwork connecting the Promenade and the Café

Looking down onto the Learning Studio

Steelwork in place to form the roof of the Landscape Gallery

View of the Whitworth Art Gallery from the

crane

Looking straight down the full height of the crane tower!