User:Ham II/Sandpit C

• https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/about-us/history/collection-history, etc.
• http://burlington.org.uk/archive/editorial/rehanging-the-sainsbury-wing?utm_source=The+Burlington+Magazine+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c9951d2153-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_08_03_28_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3a0982295a-c9951d2153-86912197
• https://www.dezeen.com/2022/09/13/history-repeating-itself-sainsbury-wing-opinion/
• https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/10/03/my-plea-to-londons-national-gallery-to-scrap-its-35m-sainsbury-wing-new-entrance-plans

Sainsbury Wing
General information
Town or city	London
Country	United Kingdom
Client	National Gallery
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Venturi Scott Brown and Associates

The Sainsbury Wing is an extension to the National Gallery in London, built in 1991 to house the gallery's earliest Renaissance paintings. It was designed by Venturi Scott Brown Associates, an American architectural practice headed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and is their only building in the United Kingdom to date. Its construction was funded by the brothers John, Simon and Sir Tim Sainsbury, members of the prominent family that founded the Sainsbury's supermarket chain. The building is a notable example of the Postmodernist style in Britain.

The building occupies a site on the north-western corner of Trafalgar Square, where a nineteenth-century building, Hampton's department store, had stood until its destruction in the Blitz. The National Gallery had long sought expansion into this space and in 1982 an open competition was held to find a suitable architect. The winning proposal, a high-tech design by the firm Ahrends, Burton and Koralek, prompted a notorious criticism from the Prince of Wales which led to its subsequent rejection. At a formal dinner he declared the design to be "a monstrous carbuncle on the face of an elegant and much-loved friend", thus introducing a new term into British architectural discourse.