Tate Modern
Converted power station housing world-class modern and contemporary art in a vast riverside turbine hall.
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Tate Modern occupies the shell of Bankside Power Station, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and left empty after its 1981 closure until Herzog and de Meuron's 1994 plan turned the turbine hall into a gallery without ever roofing it over. The guide traces that transformation, and the day in October 2003 when Danish artist Olafur Eliasson filled the same hall with artificial mist and a vast backlit sun. Stand at the turbine hall's western end for the clearest view down its length.
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