National Gallery announces shortlist for NG200 design competition 8 April 2021
Asif Khan, Caruso St John, David Chipperfield, David Kohn, Selldorf Architects, and Witherford Watson Mann have been selected in the first stage of the National Gallery’s NG200 refurbishing competition.
London’s National Gallery is looking to redesign the foyer area of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s 1991 Sainsbury Wing, the gallery s main entrance since 2018.
“Although the 1991 Sainsbury Wing has more than satisfied its original brief, audiences have grown over the past 30 years and, during busy times and especially popular exhibitions, the Wing can become quickly congested, resulting in visitors queueing outside in all weathers,” reads the competition website. “Another problem is that the Wing lacks adequate orientation and information space to help visitors to wholly engage with the collection.”
Yinka Shonibare To Coordinate 253rd RA Summer Exhibition – National Gallery
The Summer Exhibition Committee members are Royal Academicians Tony Bevan, Vanessa Jackson, Mali Morris, Humphrey Ocean, Eva Rothschild, Bob and Roberta Smith and Emma Stibbon. David Adjaye will curate the Architecture Gallery. The committee will be chaired by the President of the Royal Academy, Rebecca Salter.
For this year’s exhibition, Shonibare will explore the theme of ‘Reclaiming Magic’ and celebrate the joy of creating art. He also plans to include some work that has not been made in a ‘Western tradition’. Shonibare said: “Reclaiming Magic’ is an exhibition that seeks a return to the visceral aspects of art-making. It will transcend the Western canon, which formed the foundations of the Royal Academy and Western Art History’s reference points. The exhibition will be a celebration of the transformative powers of the magical in art, a return to the ritualistic and the sheer joy of m
Sainsbury Wing upgrade shortlist revealed
1/6 Shortlisted teams
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3/6 Model of the never realised Ahrends Burton & Koralek [ABK] design for the National Gallery Extension (1983)
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78.5% annual decrease in Nitric Oxide (NO) (2020:11.2/2019:52) •
42% annual decrease in Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) (2020:47.2/2019:81.2) •
60% annual decrease in Oxides of Nitrogen (NOX) (2020:64.4/2019:160.9) •
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The six teams shortlisted in an open international competition for an upgrade of the Grade I-listed Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in central London have been announced