Roof, 2005
Permanent Installation, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Overall H 74’, W 151’ 4”, D 42’ 11” , Each dome: 27’
425 tons of slate from Buckingham, Virginia.

In 2003 Goldsworthy was invited by the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC to make a sculpture on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its East Building. He built a series of interlocking slate domes cumulatively titled Roof that would occupy the rather slender location of the former Japanese Garden and serve to connect the interior and exterior spaces of the I.M. Pei building.