BUILDING work begins later this month on a multi-million art gallery for Middlesbrough.
Godfrey Worsdale, Middlesbrough's director of museums and galleries, said: "The £19.2m scheme will see the centre of Middlesbrough transformed."
Work on the gallery and new public square is due to start on June 21 and be completed by February.
The centrepiece building has been designed by international architect Erick van Egeraat.
Middlesbrough Mayor Ray Mallon said that it will be one of the Tees Valley's keynote buildings, at the hub of a revitalised and vibrant town centre.
Van Egeraat is responsible for buildings in Eire, Budapest and Rotterdam.
His plan for Middlesbrough is a glass-fronted showpiece complex with a ten metre high main gallery, open gallery areas, offices, collection store, education suite, a reception area and cafe-bar, a 60-seater lecture theatre and a roof terrace.
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