Construction plans for the Tate Gallery

The Tate Modern was converted from the Battersea Power Plant. This project was also completed by the Swiss headquarters of Herzog & De Meuron. Its expanded Tate Modern has undergone significant changes. Just as art and architecture have a major impact on London's daily cultural and social life, the Tate Modern has also had a major impact on London's urban construction and tourism. And once the gateways and passages to the south, which clog the station, are opened, the new development of Tate Modern will inject decisive vitality into it. At that point, people can cross the Thames river, pass through the Tate Modern and Turbine Hall, and pass the new buildings to reach Sumner Street. ) of the new square, and then through there you can reach neighboring Southwark - the developed construction industry and stable investment will give the area a completely new look in the near future.

Herzog and De Meuron focused their main efforts on the western half of the museum, which can be reached via the ramp to the west or the new square to the south . In addition, they wanted to use the buried clover-shaped oil tank that had witnessed the industrial activity in this area of ??London as a dividing point between old and new buildings. Thanks to the tanks, designers don't have to build new buildings above ground, but instead dig down along them. This design approach is not much different from the approach they took to Turbine Hall a few years ago. At that time, when building Turbine Hall (Turbine Hall), they also adopted the method of excavation in order to transform the huge building they had designed into reality. The complex structure inside the oil tank did not meet the actual requirements of the new building, but it also became a turning point in the design thinking of Tate Modern to adapt to the needs of building a modern museum in the early 21st century.

The design is mainly suitable for displaying spatial diversity and displaying its collections to the public both indoors and outdoors. The diversity of display space sizes at Tate Modern is mainly to meet the exhibition needs of classical art museums. Here, the designer added some new building structures: some structures are not necessarily right-angled in appearance, but they function more like passages; other structures have many large pillars, which are conducive to expanding space and enhancing the art of the current building. Potential and artistic charm.

Although the organizational form of these exhibition spaces has not been determined at the early stage of the design, the vertical trend of the building has begun to take shape in general, which is consistent with the construction of the Tate Modern. The parallel trends in the stages provide a sharp contrast. During the first phase, Herzog & De Meuron made it very clear that they wanted to maximize the use of the original brick building of the power plant, respecting it and valuing it. Classical architectural style. Now they took a completely different approach to meet the specific requirements of the design brief: to make the massive structure protrude from the previous cone-shaped building. After the renovation project was completed, Turbine Hall became the main body of all buildings and became even more important. In addition, a sky bridge was erected at the height of the fifth floor. From this, a wide avenue that seems to be suspended in the air traverses the entire new building and passes through several important geographical locations. These areas are connected in series with some "key spaces" - galleries and art galleries in old and new museums. They serve as highly attractive spaces and provide visitors with a full-body spatial experience.