have been selected to expand their Tate Modern London (2000). Nicholas Serota aims to raise about $254 million in the next four years to fund the expansion of galleries, educational facilities and surrounding areas on the museum's 8-acre site. Spare a few quid? Scheduled completion is 2011. | bbc | thisis | bloomberg
The substation currently occupies the whole southern wing of the Tate Modern.
In future, the substation will only take up this half of the Tate's southern wing.
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It's pretty exceptional that a museum would ask the same architects back for another go. Usually it seems they're more interested in collecting architects rather than honoring the integrity of the original job.
Bravo!
I don't think that by hiring another architect you nec. diminish the integrity of the original job. what if the first architect were dead? would the second pair of hands be less likely to fuck up the job?
Guardian challenges the Tate's ability to filll all that new space
i love the tate modern, but after doing all the galleries the first time, i generally only go for the turbine hall exhibit. the galleries are really too tight for the crowds that the museum gets.
i hope the new addition includes galleries that recognize the flow issues and can accomodate large sculpture pieces[slightly smaller than massive] with comfortable view space in a similar manor to bilbao which i feel is one of the more sucessful musuems to handle massive crowds while still feeling intimate with the pieces.
I completely agree, TED, but that was something that was a mistake in brief writing rather than in design. Pre-design estimates had traffic at something like 2 million vistors annually, but the reality became about 4 million.
Serota has improving circulation as a top priority for the expansion.
I love those crazy swiss superstars! They put the H+dM in Th+dmeam! God bless 'em.
Interesting that an institution such as the Tate would have to expand (particularly in this market) only 5 years after their redefining reno by HdeM.
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