Tate Gallery Extension - Tate Gallery of Modern Art

Tate Mo­dern stands at the heart of Lon­don, lin­ked to St Paul's Ca­the­dral by the New Mill­en­nium Foot­bridge. Built in two pha­ses bet­ween 1947 and 1963, Banks­ide Power Sta­tion was de­si­gned by Sir Giles Gil­bert Scott and has been con­ver­ted by the ar­chi­tects Her­zog & de Meu­ron until 2000. The buil­ding con­sists of a brick-clad steel struc­ture.
The most no­ti­ce­able change to the ex­te­rior of the buil­ding is a new two-storey glass struc­ture or light­beam span­ning the length of the roof which not only pro­vi­des na­tu­ral light into the gal­le­ries on the top floors, but also hou­ses a stun­ning café of­fe­ring out­stan­ding views across Lon­don.
It is only from the in­side that vi­si­tors can fully per­ceive the large scale of the buil­ding. Her­zog and de Meu­ron di­vi­ded its mas­sive 200 metres length in half. The west entrance opens to the Great Tur­bine Hall, a space as long and as heigh as the whole buil­ding. On the nort­hern side of the buil­ding, win­do­wed off from the Tur­bine Hall, five floors of gal­le­ries are ac­com­mo­da­ted.
Most of the gal­le­ries are on the nar­row side of the buil­ding, but this is ba­lan­ced by large-scale views open up throughout the buil­ding.