Denise Scott Brown makes plea to abandon "destructive" revamp of National Gallery extension
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.
Ahead of a planning decision that is set to be made tomorrow, Scott Brown said that "refusal of these applications is the only appropriate decision".
Denise Scott Brown (above) has criticised the planned renovations to the Sainsbury Wing (top image)
US studio Selldorf Architects has proposed making several alterations to the entrance and lobby of the Grade I-listed Sainsbury Wing extension at the National Gallery to reflect the fact is had become the gallery's main entrance ? a role for which it was not designed.
However, the proposed changes to the building have been widely criticised as an "act of vandalism", including by eight former RIBA presidents who said the revamp will turn the building into "an airport lounge". In her plea, written in US publication Mas Context, Scott Brown urged the Westminster planners to turn down the application and for the architects to "bring forward a scheme that better secures the considerable architectural thought that informed the original work".
Proposals "arbitrary" and "irreversible"
The current plans, which were revised in October following initial criticism, would see dark glass on the extension's facade replaced with transparent panes and the lobby largely remodelled, with ceilings and o...
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