The chimney pots hide shyly behind overscaled urns that scrape the sky. Hamilton designed this Edinburgh orphanage in 1830 as a fantastic baroque flourish.The two wings and each corner support clusters of impossibly high crenellated towers that are the flues. Farrell calls the building a masterpiece though it is a weirdly wonderful one - all facade and no content. These images comes straight out of that."You don't have to know much about Surrealism to get the message from Cloak of Secrecy by Conroy Maddox, 1940, which is exhibited against one of the yellow walls at the far end: a torso cut off above the waist, cloaked in red gauzy net with two billiard balls where the breasts should be.The restoration is sympathetic to the building by Thomas Hamilton (1784- 1858). "From my point of view Paolozzi's work shows a seamless join with Surrealism - multiple sources, a lateral view of life.

The shock waves of this audacious art had a profound effect in Britain."The British have always had a love affair with Surrealism," says Ann Simpson, curator of the archives. It was generous of him to donate his work to the nation so now it's there for posterity."And then there are the Surrealist archives: Salvador Dali introducing Surrealism to the British at the New Burlington Galleries in 1936 in full diving gear, including a bubble mask, which rendered his speech inaudible. Farrell has sympathy with that: "There is in my own work a magpie quality in what I do. I like the mix and unlikely juxtaposition - such as the garage-like TV station [TV-AM] I did in Camden, the grand palace that is the Charing Cross office."A shy man, Sir Eduardo deliberately turned up late for the opening on 25 March but Lord Snowdon, who opened the exhibition, was clear in his opinion that a gallery should be created for the artist in his lifetime "Absolutely right for an artist of his standing. Paolozzi's Chelsea studio is recreated in the gallery - even the magazine pages from which he cut out images to make his collages are stored here, giving a fascinating glimpse into his way of working.Paolozzi has said that his ideal gallery would be a gutted cathedral, full of clutter and change.

The corridor that runs 154 feet from one end of the building to the other is tall and stuffed with objects of curiosity; the glass showcases are lit with brilliant fibre optics and every available space is used to show off the collection. A hippo skull atop a joist overlooks busts and torsos perched above architraves on the pediments. Terry Farrell, the architect, shaped this gallery inside an old stone orphanage. Man and machine are celebrated in Modernism but the post-modernists like to put a bit of poetry and fantasy back into their projects. Vulcan, a 15-foot sculpture by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, is allegorical: Vulcan, god of fire and the working of metals, as well as the patron of craftsmen in mythology, shows us that post-modernism is back in fashion. It's a surreal thing.

A gigantic tin man with welded seams and a Frankenstein's Monster face stalks through the core of the new national Dean Gallery in Edinburgh. Southwark Council needs to answer their concerns because the work it has built is of an exceptional quality It deserves a better reception.. Savvy to the experience of the established community in neighbouring Docklands, locals are wary of attempts at wholesale regeneration. Perhaps for this reason, a straw poll revealed as much suspicion as enthusiasm for the projects. Gentrification and tourism have come to be seen as offering the best path to recovery and the Future Southwark initiative represents a key stage in that transformation. For despite the widespread talk of community consultation, pounds 700,000 worth of visitor centre asserts a pretty incontestable truth: the area's future lies in the hands of outsiders. The regeneration is unquestionably afoot: the new Tate is taking shape; the neighbouring Globe Theatre is up and running; a pedestrian bridge across the Thames is being built to designs by Norman Foster; and, perhaps most crucially, the Jubilee Line Tube extension should come into service in October.But the Parry project rather plays the role of spectre at the feast.