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New Wing National Gallery

This is a view of the front of the gallery looking from Trafalgar Square.

Photos shot with Ricoh GR III on a day with sun on the face of the building and dark rain clouds behind.

Now that Tamara and I live in London it has become a real bonus to be able to drop in to the gallery without thinking about train times and the journey back to Cambridge.

Kengo Kuma and Associates have won the competition to design a new wing of the National Gallery as part of Project Domani, a £750 million campaign to take the National Gallery into the next century.

I don’t know whether it has been decided what the new wing will house, but the plan for the National Gallery as a whole is to extend its historic collection beyond 1900,

Together with the National Portrait Gallery they will be one of the only places in the world where visitors can view the entire history of painting in the Western tradition.

The New Wing

The site of what is currently St Vincents House on Orange Street is the site of the proposed new Wing to the gallery.

So if you imagine looking from the photos, over and past the dome of the gallery and on to the streets behind, that is where the new wing will be – as in this artist’s impression.

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3 responses to “New Wing National Gallery”

  1. Joan E. Miller

    What an impressive old building. I don’t recall going there back in the 70s with Tamara. I think we went to the Tate, but this does not look familiar. I think I would remember it, with the pool in front.

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    1. David Bennett

      Yes, impressive. The view looking from the National Gallery is over Nelson’s Column and the two pools in Trafalgar Square. Over to the left you would see South Africa House and to the right you would see Canada House. In front, beyond Nelson’ Column you would see down Pall Mall towards the river.

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  2. Tamara Colloff-Bennett

    Atmospheric photos, David! Interesting how the camera sweep is also so different to the human eye. I tend to look at more detail, and unless one stands back – one does not see the wide grandeur of the place.

    Thanks for your comments about the extensions and remodelling to the gallery. It’s exciting thinking what the final result will be.

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