Inside the building makes good on its promise from outside, with curved walls and ceiling planes shaped to bring natural light into the two floors of galleries. An interior stair (image on previous page) also incorporates a piece of site-specific art by Corban Walker: fiber-optic lighting that extends below the stairs to animate the ascent and descent through the spaces. It is refreshing to see art that both extends from and changes its context, here in an interdependent play of surface and light.

Crawford Art Gallery.........Cork, Ireland