Tate Modern is an art museum on the south bank of the River Thames in London, housed in the former Bankside Power Station, a brick building designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963. After the power station closed in 1981, the Swiss firm Herzog and de Meuron converted the building into a museum, keeping its exterior brickwork and turning its central turbine hall into a vast open exhibition space, and the museum opened in 2000. The conversion is widely cited as a landmark of adaptive reuse, turning a redundant industrial structure into one of the most visited modern art museums in the world without erasing its industrial character. A later extension, the Blavatnik Building, was added by the same architects to the south of the original structure.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountBankside, London Borough of Southwark, London, England 1 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
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Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art (created from or after 1900).
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Tate Modern is an art gallery in London, housing the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art
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It is located in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark.
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Tate Modern was opened by the Queen on 11 May 2000.
Bankside Power Station
After sharing the Millbank site with Tate Britain for many decades, since 2000 Tate Modern has occupied the converted former Bankside Power Station. This was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Battersea Power Station, and built in two stages between 1947 and 1963.
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Prior to redevelopment, the power station was a 200 m (660 ft) long, steel framed, brick clad building with a substantial central chimney standing 99 m (325 ft).
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Prior to redevelopment, the power station was a 200 m (660 ft) long, steel framed, brick clad building with a substantial central chimney standing 99 m (325 ft).
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