Whitworth Art Gallery by Amanda Levete Architects
Feast your eyes on Amanda Levete Architects’ submission for the extension of the Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery.
The form intends to compliment the 19th century gallery, yet still maintain its individuality as a separate element. The extension, then, becomes not “one building connected to another but as something more abstract: a gesture that merges landscape with building.”
The urban gallery‚Äôs setting within Whitworth Park allows the building to merge with the landscape to “create a dynamic and inhabitable” space.”
As the park becomes the folds of fabric, these folds are sliced, peeled, and pulled to house, expose, and articulate the new program of activities of that embodies the new Whitworth Gallery,” explained the architects.
The park seems to be gathered together and drawn into the building, creating an extension that fosters a relationship between interior and exterior, object and landscape. [via]
Architects: Amanda Levete Architects
