Gallery in the Park - Nicola Walker

1. 21st Century Gallery in a Park
The last three months
(May – July 2013)

2. The roof goes on the Study Centre

3. Preparing to replace the exhibition
galleries roof-lights

4. The bare
bones of the
new grand
stair at the
north end of
the
Promenade

5. North west corner of the Lower
Promenade

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

7. Making new openings between the
exhibition galleries

8. Insulation ready for installation under
the exhibition galleries’ roof

9. The new staff entrance

10. Lifting
shuttering into
place to form
the concrete
walls of the
Landscape
Gallery

11. View of the site at the end of June

12. Breaking
through to
the Gallery
at first floor
level

13. Night-time
view across
the site during
the Nikhil
Chopra
performance

14. The North
promenade
leading
through to the
current
Whitworth
building

15. New roof-
lights ready
for installation
in the
exhibition
galleries

16. Services laid in
trenches
under the
floor of the
new
collections
storage zone

17. Inside the
Landscape
Gallery with
window onto
the park

18. Spacious
new Study
Centre

19. Steelwork connecting the Promenade
and the Café

20. Looking down onto the Learning
Studio

21. Steelwork in place to form the roof of
the Landscape Gallery

22. View of the
Whitworth
Art Gallery
from the
crane

23. Looking straight down the full height
of the crane tower!