Denise Scott Brown has accused Selldorf Architects of failing to appreciate key elements of her Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London, and of creating a remodelling vision that makes the grade I-listed extension look like “a circus clown wearing a tutu”.

Members of Westminster City Council’s planning committee are due to approve Selldorf’s hugely controversial proposals to substantially change the Sainsbury Wing – which was only opened in 1991 – at a meeting tomorrow night.

Selldorf’s plans, commissioned to mark the National Gallery’s 200^th anniversary in 2024, would see the removal of a large section of the Sainsbury Wing’s floorplate, the relocation of a group of Egyptian-style columns and the cladding of pillars in sandstone, among other interventions.

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