The project, designed by architect Ian Butcher, included extensive renovations to adapt and earthquake-proof the closed, gloomy compound of gallery buildings.Butcher specified an interior inspired by a South Seas sunrise, sunset colours and clear blu

The project, designed by architect Ian Butcher, included extensive renovations to adapt and earthquake-proof the closed, gloomy compound of gallery buildings.Butcher specified an interior inspired by a South Seas sunrise, sunset colours and clear blues and greens. The administration offices feature Resene Ayers Rock, a sunset orange, Resene Limerick, an Irish green, Resene Free Spirit, a deep blue green and Resene True Blue, a violet blue. These lively colours are in the former small galleries that at one time would have displayed old masters.