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Gallery space in Image: Rai Banda. Courtesy State Library of Victoria. Reworkign an iconic building is a risky thing to do.

It also relates the building to the historical model for the art museum as it developed through the nineteenth century — the palazzo arranged around symmetrically placed courts giving order to a hierarchical plan. Inserted into the north and south courtyards of the building are two towers of new exhibition rooms.

The towers each have three floor plates, while the original building has four. Facilitating circulation between the volumetric orders of new and old is a series of steelframed, etched glass ramps located in voids between new tower — and old courtyard — walls. The bluestone of the latter can now be admired at close range from the ramps, contrasted with but complemented by the composite construction of the walls of the new towers — stippled glass panels over grey-painted material.

At the top of the voids the glass panels are configured to curve out to skylights: light falls from the top of the void spaces and through the translucent ramps down to the lowest public level. The new voids and the old courts to a degree have the same purpose, to give a visual break from the intense experience of the art galleries around.

Does the unexpected verticality of the Bellini voids match the pleasant languor of the courts as Grounds arranged them? While the north and south courts have been filled in by the Bellini design the north had in fact already been lost through previous changes , the central court has been opened up. All the needs of museum entry and exit — coat room, information desks, shop — have been pushed to the sides, and this court — now with a glass roof — is a grand orientation space. From here, gallery visitors go to temporary exhibitions to the south, the first sequence of spaces for the permanent collection antiquities and oceanic art to the north, or to Asian art and the beginning of European historical collections up an escalator and through a bunch of cafe tables on the first floor.

But the disposition of escalators too narrow , the new curved ceiling under the entry mezzanine, and new walls of woven metal mesh — introduced to accommodate and articulate the new arrangement of things — are not compelling, even when sun and shadow play between new roof structure, gauzy new volumes, and folded surfaces of the old walls of the court.

The dissolve of the mesh would have been better taken further, the play of new shapes better if held in check. Much has been made of the shifting of the water wall at the entry to the NGV forward of the columns with which it used to align. The visual gain is negligible and the change has entailed an ungainly detail near the top of the wall where it steps forward from its old position. Better access to the garden is a plus, but all the new elements that facilitate this are awkward: the slot, the glass volume beyond it another sidle , the travertine platform why not the bluestone again?

The exhibition spaces in the revamped NGV are sequences of rooms — salons — connected in enfilade. Colour Pop - Rejuvenate Stays. Nightcap at Ashley Hotel. Quincy Hotel Melbourne. Next Hotel Melbourne. Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street.

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Contact Details. Australia's Oldest Indigenous Art. Earliest art in Australia to be scientifically dated. Kimberley Rock Art c. Bradshaw Paintings c. Pilbara, Western Australia. All rights reserved. History The National Gallery of Victoria was established in in what was then the largest city in the richest colony in Australia. Australian Highlights The Ian Potter Centre outlines the story of Australian art using an extensive program of temporary exhibitions and displays.

International Highlights The NGV's international collection includes examples of ancient Egyptian sculpture and Greek pottery, as well as Roman art and pre-Columbian art.