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Gallery overlooks river
Design
: The solidity of the stone base, the openness of the public space
on the podium and the form of the timber gallery are three distinct characteristics
of the architectural concept.
The Gallery is raised among the trees in an interlocking suite of rooms with
selected views up and down the river. Interconnected in plan and section the
gallery rooms provide a variety of exhibition spaces form close control to
natural daylight.
The Restaurant opens towards the west into a central garden between river
and escarpment. An outdoor dining terrace provides views of the picturesque
gothic College buildings.
The podium is the point of access up to the Gallery and down to the restaurant.
It emerges form the limestone escarpment like a manmade extension of the natural
landscape. Acting as a pier between the main avenue and the river, it is both
landscape and building, plinth and pathway.
