Tate Modern Switch House

Designed by Herzog & de Meuron

London, United Kingdom

Photographed in 2019

Designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and officially opened in June 2016, Tate Modern’s latest extension is radical in form and surface, yet intimately relates to the vast building it joins, which opened as London’s foremost modern art gallery in 2000.

Tate Modern has a history of big switches. It switched a disused power station into the world’s most visited modern art gallery. It switched its once-deserted riverside location into a carnival of tourists. More than anywhere else, it switched on the global mass appeal of modern art. Now, with a new extension offering 60 percent more accessible space and a 64m-high tower, comes a new switch. Form, elevation, and interior spaces switch from the main building’s rectangular to the new-build’s angular.