Could any western architect or designer have come up with a more beautiful or appropriate setting for the stone carvings found at the ancient & ruined city of Anuradapura, one time capital of Sri Lanka? The sculptures, dating from 4th C. BC to 11th C. AD, are set on plinths of un-mortared terracotta bricks (for the flexibility of exhibits on display?), with dividing walls of a similar brickwork, sloppily but appealingly mortared. The museum is set in an ex-British Colonial mansion and this space would probably have been the servants’ quarters. The floor is now in cast concrete and the walls are white-washed. There is no lighting other than the daylight which makes it through a series of arched openings in the facade, and this soft illumination is all the sculptures need to reveal their shapes. Thinking of the fortunes spent recently on some of Europe’s grandes oeuvres, one wonders if such fancy dressing does anything for the salad.
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hy go to the expense of buying an expensive shop display system when you can make one yourself? And in this case you don’t have to stack the products on the shelf or even remove them from their boxes.
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Imagine the architect of your new house arrives one day with proposals for the garden and with a level voice, mentions that the main architectural feature of the layout will be a concrete shelving system. You do your best not to laugh out loud, and remind him that you already have plenty of shelves inside.
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