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Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Year

2000

Style

Contemporary

Type

museum

Tate Modern occupies the shell of Bankside Power Station, a brick-clad monolith that Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed across 1947 to 1963 and that stopped generating power in 1981. When Tate held a competition to convert it, the Swiss…

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  1. 2000

    Original construction

    Herzog & de Meuron

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