http://www.architecturetoday.co.uk/?p=16353

As Chipperfield says, this is basically a nineteenth-century gallery parti with people spaces on the ground floor and galleries above. Unlike his Turner gallery in Margate (AT217), these galleries are not primarily daylit: most rooms have a window to exploit the view, and a strip of skylight above a light shelf which makes the source of light somewhat mysterious. The atmosphere, at least with the skylights and windows in use, is lovely: varied in light level, but generally glowing with the sense that daylight is available. The daylight seems most successful where the skylight is at the higher end of the shallow pitched ceiling. Sets of blinds allow any gallery to be used for light-sensitive material. Lines of track at ceiling level give a cool rhythm to the spots required to light individual artworks. It is a relief to see a departure from the glaring bands of backlit fabric that have recently been used so much in galleries.