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| | Millennium Galleries, Sheffield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The galleries will, inevitably, be compared with Kahns Kimbell for their calm dignity and skilful use of natural light but, as Pringle explains, they make use of a highly original daylighting strategy light from a clerestorey level is bounced off reflectors set at the edge of the vault on to the white concrete. |
 | | The Millennium Galleries are seen as part of a regeneration programme, the key link in a new cultural quarter which includes the citys Graves Art Gallery and the Crucible and Lyceum theatres, with the heavily populated campus of Hallam University nearby. |
 | | In contrast, the Millennium Galleries are uncompromisingly democratic spaces, their prefabricated modular construction expressing their non-hierarchical character, which invite the public to enter, pass through or linger according to their inclinations. |
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