Tate & Style: The Switch House Extension: Tate Modern, London SE1

摘要

Some years ago in these pages I offered a warm assessment of the conversion, in 1997-2000, of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's brick-built Bankside Power Station (1948-60) to Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 by the Basel-based architectural practice Herzog & de Meuron.1 What particularly impressed me back then was the respect the architects paid to the former turbine hall, with its single chimney, that they so skilfully adapted to a new use.