Having climbed up onto the scaffolding today and being close to the ascending brickwork on our Landscape Gallery, I’ve decided that in my next life, (should I choose to be part of the construction industry) – I’d be a ‘brickie’ – especially if I was able to work on such delightful designs as those conceived by our architects, MUMA. If you go back to one of my previous blog posts from last September, http://capitaldevelopmentwhitworth.wordpress.com/2013/09/06/beautiful-brickwork/, you will see the sample panels being developed and the special faience pieces that will give the designs facing onto Denmark Road their distinctive ‘slash and stitch’ effect, based on textiles from the Whitworth’s collection.

Work on laying the bricks to the external Gallery walls is now well under way, albeit somewhat hidden from general view by the scaffolding, but its safe to say, the connection between the red brick and terracotta facade of our original…