Interior Design Reference

Building Interior Decorating of Manchester Art Gallery by Hopkins Architects. The new building unites the City Art Gallery with the adjacent Athenaeum, both designed by Sir Charles Barry, by infilling the final quarter of the site. This satisfactorily completes the city block, in the Georgian grid plan of central Manchester.

Manchester Art Gallery - Hopkins Architects

The overall development forms a single Gallery precinct, using a glazed foyer space to create a cross axis, connecting the new and old buildings, while allowing them to retain their individual integrity.

Manchester Art Gallery - Hopkins Architects

The main entrance is still through the Ionic portico of the old Gallery.  The grand staircase leads to the piano nobile range of restored top-lit galleries.

Manchester Art Gallery - Hopkins Architects

A footbridge crosses over the glazed link to the new extension, with it’s own grand staircase and free standing lift towers.  A continuous sequence of galleries on the first floor in the new building, match the scale and symmetry of the old and give access to the Athenaeum.

Manchester Art Gallery - Hopkins Architects

A shop, coffee bar and restaurant, the Education Department, local Manchester Gallery and the loading dock occupy the ground floor. Extensive pre-fabrication was used to speed up construction.

Manchester Art Gallery - Hopkins Architects

For more information, please visit Hopkins Architects website.

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