National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia

The National Portrait Gallery, Designed by JPW located in Canberra’s, Australia Parliamentary Triangle and provides exhibition space for 500 portraits in a simple configuration of day-lit galleries. The building responds to its site by connecting key vistas, levels and alignments around the precinct. Five fingers of space, arranged perpendicular to the land axis, refer to Walter Burley Griffin’s... 

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