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    The Sainsbury Wing, designed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in association with Sheppard Robson Architects, is a 120,000 square foot addition to the National Gallery in London completed in 1991. It houses one of the world's greatest collections of early Italian and Northern Renaissance paintings. Stylistically, the Wing connects to and reflects the original 1838 National Gallery building using the same materials, while maintaining its own contemporary design. It provides a new, accessible entrance and passage to temporary exhibition spaces, amenities, and galleries arranged in a gentle hierarchy to accommodate the museum's four million annual visitors.

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    The Sainsbury Wing, designed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in association with Sheppard Robson Architects, is a 120,000 square foot addition to the National Gallery in London completed in 1991. It houses one of the world's greatest collections of early Italian and Northern Renaissance paintings. Stylistically, the Wing connects to and reflects the original 1838 National Gallery building using the same materials, while maintaining its own contemporary design. It provides a new, accessible entrance and passage to temporary exhibition spaces, amenities, and galleries arranged in a gentle hierarchy to accommodate the museum's four million annual visitors.

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    The Sainsbury Wing, designed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in association with Sheppard Robson Architects, is a 120,000 square foot addition to the National Gallery in London completed in 1991. It houses one of the world's greatest collections of early Italian and Northern Renaissance paintings. Stylistically, the Wing connects to and reflects the original 1838 National Gallery building using the same materials, while maintaining its own contemporary design. It provides a new, accessible entrance and passage to temporary exhibition spaces, amenities, and galleries arranged in a gentle hierarchy to accommodate the museum's four million annual visitors.

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    SAINSBURY WING, NATIONAL GALLERY


    Architects: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. in association with Sheppard Robson Architects Location: London, England Client: National Gallery Area: 120,000 sf Cost: $47,930,000 Completion: 1991 Built on the last open space on Trafalgar Square, the Sainsbury Wing houses one of the worlds greatest and most visited collections of early Italian and Northern Renaissance paintings. Stylistically, the Wing is designed to connect to and reflect William Wilkins 1838 National Gallery building while maintaining its own identity as a work of contemporary architecture. Its constructed of the same Portland limestone and observes the cornice height of the original. Elements from the Wilkins facade are replicated on the new building, but used in innovative and unexpected ways alongside contrasting elements -- for example, large square-cut openings and small metal columns -- to create new rhythms and harmonies. The Sainsbury Wing contains a new and more generous entry that provides grade access to the entire National Gallery. This ground-level entrance is not only accessible to all people but, in contrast to the original structure, appears accessible -- an important consideration as museums reach out to ever more diverse audiences. Inside, visitors have convenient passage to flexible temporary exhibition galleries, conference rooms, a restaurant, a 350-seat lecture theater, an enlarged museum shop, and an interactive information center. Beyond a large glass wall overlooking the Wilkins building and Trafalgar Square, a grand processional stair leads from the lobby to the third-floor permanent galleries where the Early Renaissance collection is exhibited. Galleries are arranged in a gentle hierarchy of small, medium, and large rooms, each lit by a delicately balanced and automatically controlled combination of natural and artificial light sources. Galleries are grouped and linked, providing a variety of pathways to accommodate the Museums four million annual visitors. VSBA placed first in an international invited competition for design of the Sainsbury Wing after a previous design was abandoned at the urging of the Prince of Wales. As prime architect, VSBA provided architectural design, programming, interior design, and construction documents in metric.

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    The Sainsbury Wing and original building (top) and view of the gallery during an anti-war protest

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    Awards: The Benjamin Franklin Medal Award, 1993. Honor Award, The American Institute of Architects, 1992. Arts Access Award, First Winner, 1992. The National Drywall Award for New Build, 1992. The Queens Award for Export Achievement, 1991. The Design Award for Natural Stone, 1991.

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    View of museum on Trafalgar Square

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    Street level plan

    Main stair to gallery level Main stair to gallery level

    Views of the street level lobby

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    Gallery level plan

    View of skylight lighting system

    Views of galleries

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