London's National Gallery Gets an Upgrade
Art needs architecture, and masterpieces need museums. Since the National Gallery's Wilkins Building, named after its architect, William Wilkins, opened in 1838, its Georgian frontage has dominated Trafalgar Square. In 1991 the museum added the Sainsbury Wing, a postmodern design by Americans Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown on an irregularly shaped site on the square's northwestern corner.
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