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The Saatchi Gallery.  

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The Saatchi Gallery first opened eighteen years ago in Boundary Road, and was considered the best gallery space in London, with its sky lights producing lots of natural light onto the white walls displaying the art. The gallery only recently moved, in spring 2003 to its present location of County Hall, which was a former Greater London Council Headquarters. It was feared that this Edwardian building would not work well for the contemporary art, being the opposite of the original gallery. The present positioning of the Gallery has attracted a wider audience, as its location has taken it to the centre of London's cultural scene. The building has marble fireplaces and wooden floors and plaques recording former chairmen, and some of the rooms have been converted to accommodate the artwork. For example the "Boiler Room" has been painted white, with the pipes painted grey to enhance the unfired clay pieces by...

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