Scroll down the page from the opening of the Birley Centre in October 2011 back to the start of building works in March 2010 .

4 October 2011 - The opening performance in the Jennifer Winn Auditorium with piano soloists Kenneth Lam and Sebastian Marlow and The College Strings

4 October 2011 - The official opening of the Birley Centre by Gus Christie, Executive Chairman of Glyndebourne Productions Limited (right), with Headmaster Simon Davies

2 September 2011 - College staff gather in the completed Jennifer Winn
Auditorium at the beginning of the Michaelmas term

25 August 2011 - A drum kit in the percussion studio

25 August 2011 - The control room is fitted out in the Simon Eckert Recording Studio

25 August 2011 - The Jennifer Winn Auditorium

25 August 2011 - The bar area in the Donald Perrens Foyer

25 August 2011 - The entrance from the College side of the building

9 August 2011 - The ticket desk and entrance to the Jennifer Winn Auditorium

9 August 2011 - Rows of seats at the back of the auditorium
are shrouded in plastic

9 August 2011 - The Jennifer Winn Auditorium

9 August 2011 - The view from one of the corridors, with the Towner Gallery
to the right and the Devonshire Park Tennis Centre in the middle

9 August 2011 - The view across the Donald Perrens Foyer

9 August 2011 - One of the music practice rooms, which can
also be used as a dressing/make-up room

9 August 2011 - One of the classrooms is fitted out with desks

15 July 2011 - The Donald Perrens Foyer looking out to Carlisle Road

15 July 2011 - Looking from the Donald Perrens Foyer towards the exhibition area

15 July 2011 - View from the upper level of the Donald Perrens Foyer

15 July 2011 - The entrance on Carlisle Road

30 June 2011 - The full height of the Jennifer Winn Auditorium
is revealed, showing the gallery level (centre) and the acoustic
panels at the top

30 June 2011 - The top level corridor with the large 'porthole' windows

30 June 2011 - The studio recording booth is ready for fitting out

30 June 2011 - Finishing touches are made to the largest of the recording studios

30 June 2011 - The view towards the Devonshire Park Tennis Centre
from one of the windows

25 May 2011 - The upper floors of the building at the corner
of Carlisle and College roads

25 May 2011 - Work continues on building the ramp at the entrance
on Carlisle Road

10 May 2011 - The corner of Carlisle and College roads

10 May 2011 - A side view of the building

21 April 2011 - With nearly all the scaffolding down, the crane is dismantled

21 April 2011 - A close-up of the riggers at work

21 April 2011 - The riggers start dismantling the crane

21 April 2011 - The brise soleil (sun shade) above one of the
windows, a necessity in Britain's sunniest town

3 April 2011 - The view across Wilmington Square

3 April 2011 - Side elevation from College Road

31 March 2011 - The zinc cladding on the roof has been completed

31 March 2011 - The raised floor is installed in the Music Tech room
on the top storey

31 March 2011 - The rear of the Jennifer Winn Auditorium
showing where the tiered seating will be

31 March 2011 - The view from one of the recording studios into 
the larger orchestra studio (left) and the control room (right)

31 March 2011 - The entrance from the College side of the building

24 March 2011 - The walls have been rendered and painted and the
scaffolding starts to come down

18 January 2011 - Work starts on cladding the concrete roof

17 December 2010 - Following a fresh fall of snow, the moon rises
above the crane in the late afternoon

28 November 2010 - The Birley centre shrouded in plastic sheeting

28 November 2010 - A snowy scene across Wilmington Square

28 November 2010 - The view from College Road

9 November 2010 - Scaffolding has gone up around the building
as the exterior walls are filled in

15 October 2010 - The view across Wilmington Square towards the Wish
Tower, taken from what will become the Music Tech room, at the
south-east corner of the top floor

15 October 2010 - The entrance to the Donald Perrens Foyer, looking
out towards Carlisle Road

15 October 2010 - Another view of the Donald Perrens Foyer, looking
towards the exhibition area

15 October 2010 - The lower half of the Jennifer Winn Auditorium. Once
the scaffolding and planks are removed this space will open up to
the full height of the building, with galleried seating at the higher level

15 October 2010 - The partitions mark out the walls of what will become
the David Winn Music Library on the lower floor

15 October 2010 - The stairwell at the north-east corner

12 September 2010 - The view from the Wish Tower across Wilmington Square.
The Birley Centre is in the centre of the picture, with the Towner Gallery on the right

10 September 2010 - The view looking south along College Road,
with the Art School in front of the emerging Birley Centre

3 September 2010 - The roof newly encased in concrete

2 September 2010 - Preparing to pour concrete on the roof

20 August 2010 - A close-up of the roof as it takes shape

20 August 2010 - A side view of the building with College Road in the foreground

13 August 2010 - The Red Arrows fly past the Birley Centre site
during the Eastbourne Air Show

6 August 2010 - The top floor takes shape as beams for the roof are put in place

27 July 2010 - The three storeys of the building can be clearly seen in this view of the corner overlooking College Road

27 July 2010 - As pillars for the top floor go up, the roof of the Rule Centre behind is almost hidden from view

18 July 2010 - The space for the auditorium starts to emerge in the centre of the site

14 July 2010 - The Rule Centre (top left) and the art block (right)
begin to be dwarfed by the new building

14 July 2010 - The middle floor takes shape

9 July 2010 - Concrete pillars and partitions start to appear on the middle floor

9 July 2010 - The concrete has been laid over the bars to form the middle floor

6 July 2010 - Steel reinforcing bars being put in place

6 July 2010 - Less than a week since the last picture, below

1 July 2010 - The lower floor takes shape

1 July 2010 - Workmen busy on the site

1 July 2010 - Members of the Devonshire Society observe the building works
from the balcony at the Towner Gallery opposite

23 June 2010 - The first concrete pillars are in position

11 June 2010 - The concrete in place

10 June 2010 - The concrete is laid over the steel bars

10 June 2010 - The concrete is piped over the site

4 June 2010 - The fully assembled crane in action

3 June 2010 - The crane is assembled on site

3 June 2010 - The steel bars for the reinforced concrete are put in place

27 April 2010 - Piledriving starts

16 April 2010 - Groundbreaking ceremony: Michael Birley (Headmaster 1956-70) and  his wife Ann are joined by (LtoR) Richard Canham (Head of School 1966/67), Allan Mornement (Head of School 1961), Christopher King (Head of School 1957), Hugh Price (Chairman OEA), Jeremy Goad (Head of School 1962), David West (Head of School 1969), Admiral Sir Ian Forbes (Chairman College Council), Keith Ross (Head of School 1963), Neil McWalter (Birley Centre architect) and Rear Admiral Derek Anthony (Head of School 1966)

16 April 2010 - Guests gather for the groundbreaking ceremony

29 March 2010 - Part of the Rule Centre (rear of site) has been demolished

 
5 March 2010 - The digger begins to clear the site in preparation for the build

5 March 2010 - The digger arrives on the 'Corner Cottage' site