Prescedents

National Portrait Gallery - Canberra

I really love the use of materials in this building, as well as the interesting partis that are used - similiar to Glenn Murcutt's style, a series of long 'corridor' type structures which create rows of circulation.


Mies Van Der Rohe - Berlin National Gallery

I was drawn to the effectiveness yet simplicity of Mies' design, the way he can suggest movement, not through angles or curves, but through simple cubes of mass in compression. I was particularly interested in his concept of hanging walls, as in all his designs - walls act as screens, openings in their configurations act as doors. They serve no structural purpose.