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Some of the audience sat on benches along the sides of the space, and sometimes there was a gallery level above for seating.
By lifting the gallery level into the air, the architects lead us to anticipate an intuitive sequence up toward the sunlight.
Although there is a streamlined kitchen on the gallery level near the front door, "this guy mainly orders out," the architect said.
The relatively thinner depth of reinforced-concrete floor plates meant that an extra gallery level could be squeezed into the building's height, while a terrazzo polish to the concrete meant no additional flooring material was necessary.
You can enter this lobby either from street level, in which case a long ramp eases you down toward the galleries, or directly from an underground parking garage, in which case you enter at gallery level and meet the ramp coming down from above.
The interior is no less sumptuous: you proceed through wrought-iron gates, flanked by Corinthian columns, to a grand oak staircase that sweeps up to a gallery level lit by five tall stained glass windows, emblazoned with the coats of arms of Yorkshire towns.
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The circulation areas, housed in the gap between the outer facade and the gallery levels within, promised to be a dramatic sequence up escalators and along cantilevered landings, veiled by the lacy mesh.
Nouvel is here to launch his most significant contribution thus far: 53W53, or 53 West 53rd Street, a 1,050ft tower containing 139 residences and three new gallery levels of the adjoining Museum of Modern Art.
And there's a logic and efficiency to the design: gallery levels with stair access to apartments above and below mean the lift only needs to stop every three floors, hence the spaced-out bridges over to the main block.
And they did it just before the cuts came in … On the other hand, your question is a bit like asking: "Why is it that a local art museum, where they've cut the opening hours to three on a Monday afternoon and three on a Thursday, and half of the paintings are now stored around the back, isn't a success on Tate gallery levels?" Maybe people need a little bit more.
The Virtual Art Gallery Levels-Up at UCLA.
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