1.A spiral ramp hugging the wall goes whirling up as far as the eye can see, leaving a huge cone of space I the center.

2.The entrance hall is also very dramatic.

3.When you first approach the museum, you notice that it’s very different from the buildings around it—ordinary high-rise apartment structures.

4.The squat impression made by the outside is lost on the inside.

5.It is low, first of all, almost squat in appearance.

6.The building is made of massive geometric forms: cones, tubes, rectangles, and ovals and squares, all solidly connected to form a unitary, dramatic mass of concrete and marble, wit here and there a strange vertical slit in the façade.

7.Everything inside is airy and light, turning and curving.

8.From the top of the ramp, what you see is so slender and spacious you can hardly believe it’s the same building you saw from the outside.