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The National Gallery Sainsbury Wing seen from Trafalgar Square. The brief was to improve the visitor experience, enhance access and environmental performance, and reassert the wing as the gallery’s main entrance, all without compromising its postmodern identity. (Photo by Edmund Sumner, copyright the National Gallery, London) Source: ‘Conserving the postmodern legacy of the Sainsbury Wing’ in The Institute of Historic Building Conservation’s (IHBC’s) Context 184, published in September 2025, written by Alasdair Travers, a design partner and Jon Wright a 20th-century heritage consultant, both with Purcell. https://ihbconline.co.uk/cont_arch/?p=1584 Not for re-use.
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