"a brilliantly lit volume which seems to evoke the focused, grounded and slightly eccentric Modernism of Portugal more than it does the fussy minimalism of England or the trying to hard boho-chic of New York"
"...the journey through the building is eccentric, the views and the mechanics involved in creating the openings to allow them are formidable...This is not a radical gallery; it adds little to the debate about politics of found space versus the white cube other than the juxtaposition which allows you to judge the typologies side-by-side in an identical urban condition."
"Every opening seems to line up perfectly with everything else, a slit in the wall segues into a rooflight, the impossible slender mullions line up exactly at a single point at the bottom of the stairs to give the impression of an unframed, open sky."
"The high white walls and the continuous dark, oiled wenge flooring create a seductive but slightly disorientating effect, a seamlessness which makes you lose your position in the space so that you begin to rely on the skyline and glimpses of the atrium for orientation. Everything that places you is attenuated, super-sized."
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