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          Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London



          Architect
          		Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown
          Date Built
          		1991
          Location
          		Pall Mall
          Description
          The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London's Trafalgar Square, occupies the site of a former department store destroyed by bombing in WWII.  The plan to add this extension to the gallery initiated an architectural competition and, considering the sensitivity of the site, the usual controversy.  As an article on Bdonline.co.uk in 2011 said, "...

          The project for the extension of the National Gallery proved one of the most fiercely contested battle lines in the culture wars between modernists and traditionalists that characterised architectural debate in the eighties and early nineties."

          Designs were entered from a number of architects with the firm of Ahrends, Burton and Koralek being the one that was finally selected.  However, a storm of controversy stirred up by the intervention