Conversation 3 — Dulwich Picture Gallery — Soane in The Colour Palace
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The Ruin of the Royal Academy
House is his most famous surviving building now although i think actually this gallery is the most imitative because it kind of really sets up what what galleries are but in that house he's just just doing everything and he's working on it for 40 years. He was able to do that because of because of incorporating bits he'd done from the bank of england basically where which was on a massive budget. There's meant to be an arcade and possibly part of some huge palace palatial extension but really it was only ever this like simple thing that he did as cheaply as possible when people came down to see it.
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