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Architecture studio Carmody Groarke has designed a lower-level entrance and gallery space at a science museum in Manchester, UK.
Envisioned as the first part of the Science and Industry Museum s long-term renovation plan, Carmody Groarke revamped the institution s lowest floor adding a Special Exhibitions Gallery, foyer and additional visitor entrance.
Carmody Groarke created a lower-level entrance to the Science and Industry Museum
The entrance on the lower ground floor of the 19th century New Warehouse building connects the museum with the Lower Yard and creates a new route through the institution.
To draw attention to this entrance, which is located under a vaulted railway viaduct, and differentiate it from the surrounding industrial architecture the studio framed it with backlit fibre-glass panels.
Carmody Groarke revives Victorian vaulted space for Manchester museum
Carmody Groarke revives Victorian vaulted space for Manchester museum
Architects Carmody Groarke revive a vast, brick space for the flexible new Special Exhibitions Gallery at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester
A flexible gallery has just been completed as part of the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. The project, spanning an impressive 725 sq m and forming the institution’s new Special Exhibitions Gallery, has been designed by London-based architects Carmody Groarke.
The new cultural space occupies a majestic Grade II-listed structure, dating back to the 1880s. Housed within a part of the museum’s network of Victorian railway viaducts called New Warehouse, the design embraces the original architecture’s historical character. High vaulted ceilings (at 5m tall) define the structure, which is largely made of cast iron and terracotta-coloured Victorian brick.