Tate Modern unveils growth plans

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5212900.stm

London's Tate Modern art complex has unveiled plans to add a £215m glass building, which will increase the size of its exhibition space by 60%.

An electricity sub-station will move to make way for the 11-floor extension.
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After visiting the Tate quite a few times I personally would welcome it. With the growth of visitors during 2012, the gallery as it stands today wouldn’t be able to handle it. From the pictures the expansion very modern, and suits the art the gallery already exhibits.
 
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With the growth of visitors during 2012, the gallery as it stands today wouldn’t be able to handle it.
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The Tate Modern will not be the only thing that wont be able to handle the influx of people in 2012.....Imagine the Tube, Buses, Oxford Street et Al - OMG - It doesn't bare thinking about! I am just having my morning coffee and dreading the Northern Line, 40c and like a Sardine Tin! Boo Hoo I hate morning commutes.

Still, the expansion looks amazing, I hope Norman Foster gets the comission!
 
Could they not just crush all the work and make it smaller and then say it was "art" :D
 
I expect it'll be called another "carbuncle" :rolleyes:

Personally, I think they should build a hanger the size of the NEC,
bung it somewhere OTHER than bloomin' London; and show ALL the art they are currently just keeping in storage.

There is just tons of stuff hidden in back rooms, what is the point in having so much stuff if punters can't see it ?


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Le_Petit_Lapin said:
Could they not just put floors in that absolutely massive hole in the centre of the building instead?
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No, that room/enterance is for main peaces. One year I went they had a HUGE red horn looking thing in there. Took up the whole room!
Keep the enterance as it is, its great to look down at it from the top floor!
 
Mr.Orb said:
No, that room/enterance is for main peaces. One year I went they had a HUGE red horn looking thing in there. Took up the whole room!
Keep the enterance as it is, its great to look down at it from the top floor!
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Looks like a waste of space IMHO. That red horn could have been put outside in a tent.

To be honest, I don't really like very much of the "art" in the Tate Modern. While its supposed to be thought provoking, generally the thoughts that come onto my head when looking at about 90% of the exhibits are "Why did the artist bother?" or "Someone got PAID for this crap?"
 
I saw this story a few days ago and plan to incude in it my major update this weekend in this thread.

Here's a few renders to keep you busy:

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I've got more renders but you can see them yourselves from the architects and tate modern wesbite, or alternitively wait for Sunday for that thread update.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
ah. That is quite big.

What does it do though? What does it symbolise?
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Yeah, its very big - Won't fit in a 'Tent' :p

No idea what it symbolised.... Its modern art, doesn't need to :p
Imagine if it was made into one of those bass tubes…. It would probably blow your clothes off. :D :eek:
 
There's very few things on this planet that I hate more than those who belittle modern art because they either do not understand it or have such rigid preconceptions of art that they dismiss anything that isn't paint on canvas.

This is compounded when they describe it as "art"...It makes me think of those people who make little quotation marks in the air with their index and middle fingers...

/seethe

Anyhoo - can't wait for the expansion. Tate Modern ranks alongside The Baltic as two of my favourite spaces in the UK.

*n
 
penski said:
Gibberish :p
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Have you been to the saatchi gallery? That is one of my favourite modern art gallery’s (along side Tate Modern), I went when it was at County Hall. They had an exhibition where a room was filled with oil, it looked like a giant mirror until you stepped onto the walkway and you see its oil.

They only picture I could find of it:
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I would love to go to The Baltic sometime, but its a bit far from Swindon :(
 
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penski said:
There's very few things on this planet that I hate more than those who belittle modern art because they either do not understand it or have such rigid preconceptions of art that they dismiss anything that isn't paint on canvas.

This is compounded when they describe it as "art"...It makes me think of those people who make little quotation marks in the air with their index and middle fingers...

/seethe

Anyhoo - can't wait for the expansion. Tate Modern ranks alongside The Baltic as two of my favourite spaces in the UK.

*n
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I was refering to some of the pieces such as the pile of bricks on the floor that, as far as I could tell was just a mess, and the tape recorder sitting there playing an endless loop of farting noises. Things like that just irritate me, and I wonder why they bother.

Don't get me wrong though some of the modern art is very good, I particularly liked the Humpty Dumpty one on Tate Liverpool which symbolised the madness of nuclear stockpiles. That was very good and well thought out.
 
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