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.
The Swiss firm of architects Herzog and de Meuron have created a ground-breaking scheme for the new development at Tate Modern. A tower, structured as a series of stacked cubes (UPDATE: The design for the building’s exterior has since evolved beyond these initial concept images, see this post for the latest developments) will connect to the existing Tate Modern building and provide 60 percent extra floor-space.
This short film gives you a sense of how the new development will look from the outside, now we’re asking you to help us shape its interior spaces.
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As well as galleries to show more of our collection and to explore newer areas of visual culture such as installations, videos, photography and performance, it will give us much more room to design cutting-edge visitor facilities – spaces for conversation, for learning, for relaxing, for eating, for shopping, for play. So what should these spaces be like?
Over the next six months we’ll be inviting all kinds of people, including designers, artists, young people, families, students and Tate staff, to share their ideas. Why not send us your own photos and join the discussion here at The Great Tate Mod Blog?
Jane Burton, Creative Director, Tate Media
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I hope that the elderly and the actually old will also be included in the new plans. Of couse some of us will fall into the categories (designers, artists….) set out above, but most of us won’t and we need to be included as a category in our own right. We have potentially so much pleasure to gain from this development and there are an awful lot of us.
You’re quite right, and one of the focus groups we’ll be running in the next couple of months is with a group of older people from a local community group. Hopefully they’ll have some interesting ideas about what they’d like to find in a transformed Tate Modern. Have you got some ideas yourself?
Not really a comment for the blog – just to say that I can’t see the down arrow on the mood board no matter how high the resolution or large the screen I use and I couldn’t see any other way to let you know.
Sorry
I think the blog and the mood board are brilliant ideas.
just to re-enforce the problem with viewing the mood board…cant see the down arrow!
Also…do you print all pics. sent to you on mood board or are you selective?
When will the ideas go on display?
i too think blog and mood board are great..gives everyone chance to contribute
Oops – we thought we’d fixed this a while ago. Should be right as rain shortly. Thanks for letting us know, and for your contributions to the mood board.
down arrow now visible!!
many thanks
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The oil tank spaces look beautiful & have strong, abstract markings on the roof of chamber1 in black & red. Can they remain or be incorporated into the interior design?
The 3d simulation of the oil is superb. It might be great to add sound recorded in the chambers, that alters as the viewer navigates the space & distorts it’s speed as the viewer slows down / speeds up. Online explorations could be recorded, each one unique, & the best added as in the mood board?
I am not an architect.
But aren’t there well-established rules about visual harmony?
The shock of the new is always exciting.
This design looks a little bit like the 2012 London Olympics Logo.
I’m very excited! I think it looks wonderful – a cubist sphinx!
I think it’s great that Tate Mod will be 60% bigger BUT… this design already feels out of date. Would have been exciting ten years ago. Disappointing.
The Touch Tours exhibits are brought out to visually impaired visitors and these times allowed although welcome, do put pressure on the VIP in that there is anxiety about the amount of time you are taking of the Touch Tours staff. I believe that there should be a dedicated room and exhibition space entirely made over to objects and paintings that are meant to be touched.
I make tactile paintings that are meant to be touched and Tate Modern commissioned me to make a tactile copy of Whaam by Roy Lichtenstein that cannot ( for obvious reasons be put on a wall) however tactile work is not only for the visually impaired, the experience can and should be shared by all. The Mary Rose Museum has a tactile painting on permanent display and this has attracted many visitors.
Materials and touching things is really important. I’ve done a Touch Tour and went to some material events at Tate by Materials Library (not sure if this is the correct name) and think more of this kind of work brings new ways of being in art galleries and seamed to be enjoyed by all.
Hi Jill
You might be interested in the podcast that we produced with the Materials Library for Tate Modern available here:
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/tours/materialslibrary/
which offers another way to experience the galleries and works.
So many new museums and additions are admittedly beautiful and creative, but I have noticed that so few are well equipped to display art. Form over function. The rendering of the new Tate Modern addition is stunning, I hope it also functions well. Isn’t the key to a good design for a museum the ability to display art?
I would like to see a room devoted to acoustic art – something that would encompass concerts/live preformance/sound sculpture/soundscapes.
Debi
PS I loved the creative sound course that you ran last year!
Shame about the stacked cubes add-on, it will ruin the symmetrical simplicity of the original building.
Thanks Doug, I listned to the tour and really enjoyed it. Track 7 was especial lovely… such infectious laughter. All in all a real mix of informative and delightful playfulness. I’ve downloaded it for future enjoyment. Thanks very much for telling me about it.
im an frenchs etudiant ad i think its a great and very nice gallery its incroyable!!!
Im french and I think your museum is very good and the paintimgs are very various ! I love a lot the films !
Hi
Have you read Sophie Handler’s Fluid Pavement? She was a pize winning student at the Bartlet who combined fact fiction and a kind of lucid dreaming to understand how perception of growing old, anxiety and actual degeneration could be compensated for in planning and development. It’s like a poem- beautiful!
thes museum is good . i liked
Well, I did leave a comment, but it seems to have disappeared! I am sure the new modern building will provide more exhibition space, but I am not convinced that the size of the development is really necessary.
It dwarfs the old Powerhouse building, and also nearby buildings. But it is certainly an improvement on the ‘glass block’ monstrosity which was previously proposed.
We will see, but I wonder if planning officers will have a say?
Will be following events with interest.
i am an idiot. x
and i love the tate modern a lot. x
and i am about to start a degree in glasgow
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