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Rowan Moore issues a blow to the Selldorf-led Sainsbury Wing redevelopment

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The problem is that the proposed new work is something else altogether to Venturi and Scott Brown’s playfulness and personality. It has curving glass balustrades, white walls and oak-clad pillars, and expanses of plain paving outside.

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The lessons we’re still ‘Learning from Las Vegas’ after 50 years

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Yale ’s new visiting critic Christopher Hawthorne considers the lasting inspirational qualities and history of Steven Izenour , Denise Scott Brown , and Robert Venturi 's seminal 1972 text, whose origins can be traced to a studio the young newlyweds taught in New Haven in the fall of 1968.

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Denise Scott Brown makes plea to abandon "destructive" revamp of National Gallery extension

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Architect Denise Scott Brown has urged planners to refuse Selldorf Architects ' controversial plans to remodel her and Robert Venturi 's postmodern Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery. Denise Scott Brown (above) has criticised the planned renovations to the Sainsbury Wing (top image).

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OMA, VSBA, MASS Design Group, Piechota Architecture, and VENN STUDIO are Archinect Jobs' latest featured employers

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VSBA Architects & Planners , the next phase of iconic studio Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, is hiring a Project Architect in Philadelphia. Galleria by OMA. Photo: Hong Sung Jun.

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Selldorf Architects reveals first round of designs for National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing redevelopment

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An important update has been issued to one of the most-watched cultural projects in the UK this afternoon after Selldorf Architects released their initial plans for the redesigned Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery of Art in London. Image courtesy Selldorf Architects. A proposed loop connection of the Sainsbury Wing.

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"History now seems to be repeating itself at the Sainsbury Wing"

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The criticism over Selldorf Architects' redesign of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown 's Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery is the latest in a long line of controversies surrounding the building, writes Catherine Slessor. Selldorf has previous form in tampering with Venturi and Scott Brown's buildings.

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Revamp of Venturi Scott Brown's National Gallery extension would be "an act of vandalism"

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Architects, critics and academics are concerned about Selldorf Architects ' plans to remodel Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown 's postmodern Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London. Selldorf Architects' proposal would see the lobby (above) and facade (top) remodelled.