PUBLICNEW CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY AUCKLAND
The New Gallery was a thoughtful transformation of an historic four-storey telephone exchange into a contemporary art gallery, with shops and restaurant on the ground floor.
“The New Gallery in Auckland is a work of art…. It is easy to enter the building a critic, but only a steel-willed cynic wouldn’t exit a convert…..the space is swoon-inducing. Respect: that’s what gives this conversion its class. Stout and Mitchell respect the past but face the future front-on, opening up old forms to new functions…. With architects like this, who needs artists?” - Justin Paton, New Zealand Listener.
Photos: Patrick Reynolds
