Award-winning architects Herzog and de Meuron are designing a new building that will be created on the south side of the existing Tate Modern gallery.
Send us your photographs of your favourite spaces and help shape the new development of Tate Modern. We're planning a spectacular new building and we want to create a photographic 'Mood Board' of the kind of interior spaces, ambience and designs that people would like to find there. Favourite spaces might include a café or bar, chill-out space or lounge; it could be a domestic interior or a public space. We'll be blogging here regularly to get a conversation going, and we'll put the best photos and ideas generated into a display at Tate Modern in summer 2008.
> View the Mood Board
Stepping out of the tube at Whitechapel in East London, you find yourself in a bustling market, selling everything from fruit and veg to saris and CDs of the latest Bangra beats. Above the stalls and Victorian shop-fronts the colourful glass façade of the ‘Ideas Store’ hoves into view, like an inter-stellar spaceship on a […]
Mod Blog contributors, commentators, film-makers, scrawlers and fans, please take a bow as we have been awarded a splendid shiny pink sci-fi-esque cube for our efforts…
Snatching the annual BIMA award for Best Blog in the ‘Social Media’ category, The Great Tate Mod Blog won out against some strong competition. As you can see we produced ours for […]
I recently visited Berlin and was keen to experience the city’s art galleries. I found them to be some of the most exciting gallery spaces I have ever seen.
Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin (© Alexey Moskvin)
One of them is Hamburger Bahnhof, which was designed by Josef Paul Kleihues, and originally built as the terminal of […]
Sheffield, for me, is a city that would be impossible to sum up in one blog. Then again, I’m slightly biased in my love for the place, having spent the last seven years there. It’s definitely a city where all is not what it seems. A mystery, a cult classic.
When I think of Sheffield […]
For some truly off-the-wall ideas take a trip to Psycho Buildings, the Hayward Gallery London’s mash up of art and architecture.
The exhibition brings together what they describe as ‘habitat-like sculptures and architecturally inflected installations’. This translates into some pretty weird and spectacular spaces, and maybe a few that would be fun to think about […]
Today, Tate Director, Nicholas Serota and architects Herzog & de Meuron revealed the latest plans for the new development at Tate Modern.
Instead of the glass façade originally envisaged, the building will be enveloped in a textured brick lattice. The design links the extension much more closely to the brick structure of the existing power […]
When it was time to design a forward-looking extension to the already contemporary Tate Modern, the voice of the next generation needed to be heard. So it made sense to invite Raw Canvas - Tate Modern’s youth initiative - on a tour around the oil tanks.
Calling all teenagers: if you could design your perfect space to hang out in at Tate Modern, what would you put in it? What would it look like?
In Channel 4’s Skins, the teenagers hang out mostly in a park in Bristol. Outside of tellyland, teens do similar things - in Manchester they congregate around Urbis, […]
We caught up with Renzo Piano to talk about ecological architecture, how to design a “cultural building”, and what it means to build the first skyscraper in New York since September 11th.
The man who built the Pompidou Centre had a few things to say about his iconoclastic past and his ambition to create “buildings that […]
Fiona Sibley goes in search of interesting signage
Without directions, how would we find our way around? One of the big tasks facing Tate Modern 2’s designers will be to create a neat system of signs to lead people through the new building.
Contemporary architecture on a big scale often needs good signage – or wayfinding […]
This week, members of the Tate staff who are involved in the project to transform Tate Modern went on a trip to visit the Laban Dance Centre, in Deptford, South East London. The centre opened in 2003 and won the prestigious Stirling Prize for architecture that same year. Not only is it a stunning building, it’s also […]
Admit it: half the joy of going to the Tate – or any museum – is browsing around the shop. Am I right? The British Museum plies a fine trade in merchandise, from Elgin Marbles fridge magnets to printed shopping bags that your mother might use and are now rather fashionable in an eco and […]
Recently we’ve been out on the front line here at The Great Tate Modblog, approaching visitors to Tate Modern to see if they had any practical and imaginative design ideas for TM2. With an audience of over 5 million a year the huge variety of motivations that draw people to the building all […]
‘Oh Manchester, so much to answer for’ Morrissey once said, and just for a change, he’s right.
I like Manchester, I like what it means. Manchester to me conjures up images of music, of artists, of designers, showing the rest of the world how it’s done. The Smiths, The Fall, Peter Saville, Factory Records. But […]
Why do bars feel so formulaic and boring? Is it because so many offer a slightly different version of the same thing?
It needn’t be so. A good bar should be just as welcoming and difficult to leave as a homely pub – just with much better furniture and a more tantalising shelf of drinks […]
-
-
-
-
It’s a cold February morning as I wander out of New Street station, and I’m greeted by the sing-song accents of the taxi drivers, the blue skies and the Rotunda. All around there’s an architectural mish-mash of the last fifty years. I think it’s beautiful. But I’m biased: this is the city where I grew […]
