After the Victoria & Albert Dundee in Scotland, Kengo Kuma, in collaboration with the British firms BDP and MICA, has designed a new iconic museum project in the UK: the extension of the National Gallery in London, as part of the "Project Domani", a £750 million initiative aimed at redefining the museum’s role for the coming century. The extension will be built on the site of St Vincent House, a 1960s office and hotel complex owned by the museum, to the north of the ‘controversial’ Sainsbury Wing (designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in a postmodern style and recently refurbished), to which it will be connected by a bridge. As suggested by the competition renderings, the building, clad in Portland stone, is characterised by a composed and linear geometry that blends gracefully into its surroundings but not without dynamism, featuring interplay of volumes and glazed openings. The project will provide 800 square metres of space for temporary exhibitions (on the ground floor) and 1,500 square metres of permanent exhibition space (on the upper floor), marking a shift in the institution’s cultural strategy: previously focused on works up to around 1900, the National Gallery will in the near future also exhibit paintings from the late 19th century to the present day, becoming the only museum in the world with works spanning the entire history of Western painting.