There's no way to anticipate the capaciousness of the National Gallery of Art East Building-the sense of expansion you'll feel once you take your first steps past the low-ceilinged security checkpoint and into the central atrium. Architects have been employing this effect-leading people from a compressed space into an expansively open one-for centuries, but in the context of the multilevel galleries in I.M. Pei's 1978 jewel box, it feels new.
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