A walkway and a cube-shaped gallery float above the lobby.
In this case, a big, solid-looking enclosed geometric form fills the center of the gallery, floating about two feet off the ground.
If curators wish to divide the galleries, floating walls can be hung from the dark concrete ribs snaking throughout the building; these can also support sculpture weighing up to a tonne.
In a prototype building system recently shown at London's Building Centre Gallery, a floating canopy of laser-cut aluminum meshwork is fitted with dense masses of interconnected glass and polymer filters.
The floating gallery concept, however, is not without hazard, she acknowledged.
A few years ago, a group of artists took over a decrepit World War II-era Navy rescue boat and turned it into a floating gallery space.
But its weird, empty spaces — the double-height "great" room, the floating gallery — and abundance of wet bars make it one of the most awkward, as Mr. Potter might say, stroking each syllable with a William F. Buckley Jr. drawl.
She was gritting her teeth, forcing her way through a conversation with my mother, an artificial exchange about nothing at all, hoping soon to return to her more important, unfinished dialogue with this other, floating gallery of observers.
It's Halloween in New Orleans with skeletons sitting on pedicabs, blue vampires peeking out from the Rodrigue Blue Dog gallery, and ghosts floating from glowing balconies.
"It's not like a gallery where people are floating in and out.
