The new $162 million National Gallery of Canada is dramatically situated on Ottawa's Nepean Point across from Parliament Hill. Canadian architect Mosh(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: The new $162 million National Gallery of Canada is dramatically situated on Ottawa's Nepean Point across from Parliament Hill. Canadian architect Moshe Safdie's massive structure of granite; glass and concrete contains bright galleries that feel open and airy. The vast interior has been carved into dozens of rooms; some cavernous but many small and intimate. When lit from within at night. Its six glass towers stand out like a jewel on Ottawa's neo-Gothic skyline