National gallery revamped

i reckon the melbourne art gallery still has more & better content. and i’m stuffed if i’ll consider race when determining whether something looks interesting.

No more fracking dot paintings! I dont give a shit about Aboriginal art.

And I refuse to go to the restauarant with its monkey heads from the north affront in the water spoiling my din dins.

It’s not actually the art commmunity, it’s the architecture community (who are a particularly wanky subsection of the arts community, alargely because, well, they build buildings and more people see them).

And remember, this is the federal incompetents doing this, not the local incompetents.

And I’m guessing that Fort Knox’s numbers are in 1937 dollars – inflation has been a real bitch since then…

“And it’s the arts community that I was directing the ’stuff them’ comment to. Afterall, why should they complain when such an amount is being spent on the building?”

Well they haven’t, yet.

I was just trying to get ahead of the pack.

At least the original architect Madigan (sp?) seems to back whatever the latest plans are.
-Unless I misheard him.

Sounds like a spectacular wankathon to me, $90m is a budget for a small country, not a building (or even a set of buildings) in Canberra.

Let’s do some comparisons:

This will purchase roughly 90 houses in Yarralumla (factoring in an average of $1m/house)

That equates to about 300 3br good quality DLUG houses in the outskirts, roughly the amount of houses within a small suburb.

I may consider making it my mission in life to steal this door, as it apparently is worth more than the door to Fort Knox, as the entire complex cost only $560,000 to build (Wiki).