gallery in the park - nicola walker
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Gallery in the Park - Nicola WalkerTRANSCRIPT
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!