Award-winning architects Herzog and de Meuron are designing a new building that will be created on the south side of the existing Tate Modern gallery. Planning permission has now been granted, and the project is aiming for completion in 2012. The total costs of the development are comparable to the costs of the original Tate Modern: £165 million at today’s prices, £215 million at outturn in 2012.
The success of Tate Modern makes the new development necessary as we have around 5 million visitors a year and the present building was designed for half that number. As well as providing more space for modern and contemporary art, which will enable Tate to explore new areas of visual culture; the new building will give Tate room to develop much better visitor facilities. This is where the Great Tate Mod Blog comes in as we invite people around the world to send us photographs of their favourite spaces and designs."
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