Tate Modern’s immense Turbine Hall

발전소를 리모델링하여 탄생한 Tate Modern. 기존의 사용 목적 덕분에 입구에 경사진 큰 터빈 홀이 있다.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/building/

 It was a former power station that had closed in 1982, so it was available. It was a very striking and distinguished building in its own right, by the architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Not least, it was in an amazing location on the south bank of the River Thames opposite St Paul's Cathedral and the City of London. Plans were almost immediately formulated to build a footbridge to link the new gallery to the City. The fact that the original Tate Gallery was also on the river made a satisfactory symmetry, and meant that the two could be linked by a riverboat service.

The power station consisted of a huge turbine hall, thirty-five metres high and 152 metres long, with, parallel to it, the boiler house. The turbine hall became a dramatic entrance area, with ramped access, as well as a display space for very large sculptural projects. The boiler house became the galleries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/arts/design/01tate.html?_r=1

테이트 모던을 MoMA와 비교하며 부러워하는 로버타 스미스의 글.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-486416/Is-new-Tate-sculpture-cracked-be.html

테이트 모던의 터빈홀에서는 대형전시가 많이 열리며, 그 덕분에 유명세를 치르기도 한다.