The Tate modern at the begining of this week announced a new extension to its Bankside Powerstation site in London. The extension by the same Architects who did the conversion of the power station Herzog & DeMeuron is radically different appproach from their conversion. The guardian & Gabion cover it well pointing out that although a huge gallery its already too small, it easily outstrips the The Pompidou Centre in Paris, and New York’s MoM in number of visitors. Nowhere else is the modern museum policy of mixing art and commercialism so well integrated. As for the architecture, well its bold and interesting but for the site and as an extension I’m not convinced it has ‘guggenheim effect’ written all over it, although I have to say it is a really intriguing object. It might be worth waiting to see how the scheme develops.
The Tate Modern: rise of the megagallery
The Tate modern at the begining of this week announced a new extension to its Bankside Powerstation site in London. The extension by the same Architects who did the conversion of the power station Herzog & DeMeuron is radically different appproach from their conversion. The guardian & Gabion cover it well pointing out that although a huge gallery its already too small, it easily outstrips the The Pompidou Centre in Paris, and New York’s MoM in number of visitors. Nowhere else is the modern museum policy of mixing art and commercialism so well integrated. As for the architecture, well its bold and interesting but for the site and as an extension I’m not convinced it has ‘guggenheim effect’ written all over it, although I have to say it is a really intriguing object. It might be worth waiting to see how the scheme develops.