Art gallery
Gallery of Modern Art
Riverside pavilion of glass and concrete under a vast cantilevered shading roof, built to shelter contemporary art.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane traces the gamble Architectus took when they won the two thousand two competition to design a glass-walled gallery for a subtropical river city. It follows the oversized cantilevered roof they built, modeled on old Queenslander verandas, to shade walls of glass over some of the country's most fragile art. You will hear the architects' own claim for how much of that problem the roof actually solves. Stand on the riverside terrace and look up.
This audio guide was created using AI.