Looking back toward the National Gallery of Art's original home, a neoclassical building completed in 1941 and designed by John Russell Pope.
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Street-level skylights for the sub-grade concourse linking the two parts of the National Gallery of Art.
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Plaza fountain, leading to the East Building
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Entry elevation of I. M. Pei's East Building, a major expansion of the National Gallery of Art, opened in 1978.
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Recessed entry detail showing off the building's triangular structural geometry.
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