Levine Building gallery | Trinity College Oxford

We hope you enjoy the updates showing the process of transforming the college as the Levine Building project is underway. Please visit the project news and updates pages for more detailed updates.

October 2020

Site Visit and Tour

The progress made in the construction of the Levine Building is shown in this site tour video from October.

June to August 2020

The Levine Building Takes Shape

Over the course of the summer, work on the teaching rooms, student bedrooms, cafe and auditorium progressed rapidly.

An aerial view of the project site for the Levine building, including hoardings and the college library.

Trinity college staff stand in front of what will be the new beer cellar in the Levine Building.

A view of the beginning of the second floor of the Levine Building

A view of the digging around the Levine Building site, with the Weston Library in the background.

A Trinity staff member on a site visit stands in front of what will be the large windows in the Levine Building cafe.

A wide angle view of the Levine Building site in August, with a giant crane and the Weston Library.

The metal skeleton of the second-floor on the Levine Building.

May 2020

Delivery of the Crane

After a brief lockdown stoppage with the arrival of coronavirus, the site work continued anew and a giant crane arrived from Italy to help lay the foundation work for the building.

Piling and digging on the Levine Building site next to the Weston Library after a brief stoppage for lockdown.

A giant crane looms over the top of the Trinity College grounds.

The giant crane towers in the sky above the Levine Building site.

The crane on the Trinity College site is visible in the skyline from South Park.

November 2019

Oxford Archaeology Excavation

The team at Oxford Archaeology have been involved from the early stages of this project to ensure that important archaeological evidence is thoroughly excavated, recorded and reported on.

the Oxford Archaeology team on day one of their work on the Trinity College site.

A hand holds a clay pipe stem dug up on site.

Two small clay pipes in the gloved hands of an excavation archaeologist.

Demolition of the

Cumberbatch Building

This video shows the progress of the demolition of the Cumberbatch Building between August and October. Going at breakneck speed, it shows just how much has been achieved in just a few months.

April to July 2019

Removal of the Stuart Gates and Lawn Pavilion Installation

The installation of the new temporary Lawn Pavilion involved closing off sections of Parks Road overnight and craning the building parts over the Stuart Gates. The new building will be in situ for three years.

The wrought iron Stuart Gate lies on the grass in college.

A forklift truck drives through the open space where the Stuart Gates used to be.

A truck drives building materials through the open Stuart Gates space.

A night view of a giant crane lifting building materials over the Stuart Gate.

A view from the Trinity lawns of a crane lifting huge building parts over the gates.

The outer shell of the temporary Lawns Pavilion building.

The Lawns Pavilion structure in progress.

An aerial view of the construction process for the temporary Lawns Pavilion.

The completed Lawns Pavilion sits next to the Garden Quad building.

February 2019

Tree Clearing in the Wilderness

The first significant preparatory works for the Levine Building began with the felling of a number of trees in the Wilderness to enable access and construction.