Australian National Gallery

Col Madigan of Edwards, Madigan, Torzillo & Briggs of Sydney, 1982. Reworking of a competition entry originally intended for Capital Hill.
Ballets Russes collection, Australian collection of interwar art and design Parkes Place, Parkes. National art collection dates from 1911.
Free form insitu concrete, bush hammered finish. Opened in 1982 but originally a competition winning entry for a gallery between Camp Hill and Capital Hill – lakeside site chosen the following year. Setting by landscape architect Harry Howard. Planned on a triangular grid.
Originally the building contained eleven galleries, the largest with a 12 metre high ceiling. Building extended to the design of Andrew Andersons in 1997. EMTB won the competition for the adjacent High Court in 1973.


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