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The building complex of MHS brings together varied
but related aspects of photographic culture - two buildings
with a mixture of photographic uses face each other across
the space and are linked by images projected from the
archive onto the screen window of the gallery. A logical
interdependent relationship of function and use is established
and maintained across this public room.
Completed in June 1996, the archive and school are housed in a five-storey-over-basement
red brick building on the north side of MHS. Small repetitive elements
such as box-hole windows punctuate the façade lending a visual
rhythm to its public face. The arched form of the building mark a
formal entrance as well as 'bridging the gap' between MHS and Essex
Street East.
Click here
to view our interview with the Gallery of Photography's
architects, Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey
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