London - Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern fine art gallery located inwards London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern fine art too forms business office of the Tate grouping (together alongside Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives too Tate Online). It is the most-visited modern fine art gallery inwards the world, alongside approximately 4.7 i chiliad k visitors per year. It is based inwards the one-time Bankside Power Station, inwards the Bankside expanse of Central London

The Turbine Hall

History

The galleries are housed inwards the one-time Bankside Power Station, which was originally designed yesteryear Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, too built inwards ii stages betwixt 1947 too 1963. The ability station unopen inwards 1981. The edifice was converted yesteryear architects Herzog & de Meuron too contractors Carillion, later on which it stood at 99m tall.

A gallery at Tate Modern

The history of the site every bit good every bit data well-nigh the conversion was the footing for a 2008 documentary Architects Herzog too de Meuron: Alchemy of Building & Tate Modern. The southern 3rd of the edifice was retained yesteryear the French ability fellowship EDF Energy every bit an electrical substation (in 2006, the fellowship released one-half of this holding).

Tate Modern too the Millennium Bridge. The rebuilt Globe Theatre is inwards white, to the left

In the early on morning, seen from nigh Blackfriars

From the Millennium Bridge

View looking upwards the chimney of Tate Modern

Ólafur Elíasson's The Weather Project inwards the Turbine Hall

Test Site yesteryear Carsten Höller