Municipal Board, London District Sautvork approved the draft of a new building for the gallery Tate Modern, a well-known architects Herzog and de Meron

When in 2000 the gallery opened in London Tate Modern, it was anticipated that the maximum number of visitors will be 1.8 million people a year. But now, almost ten years later, that figure had risen to 4.6 million. Therefore, even though the building of a former power station, in which the museum can be no doubt mention the giant, broadening becomes simply essential.

Hope this is likely to soon be the real embodiment, since the Municipal Council of the London area Sautvork recently approved new reconstruction project, which was sent there earlier this year . It is sponsored by the same Swiss architects Jacques Herzog (Jacques Herzog) and Pierre de Meron (Pierre de Meuron), which is almost ten years ago were engaged in restructuring the power of the gallery. The new building, similar to intertwine the pyramid of bricks and glass, will be 11-storied. On the tenth floor of a restaurant located at 150 seats, and at the top will be open to the public gallery. The closer to the top of the pyramid, the smaller the area of floors, and between them they connect inclined passages, stairs, and eight lifts. The space for the exhibition will increase by 65 percent from the gallery space without columns.

Reconstruction also cover the three large oil tank former power, now no longer used for other purposes. In these rather special facilities planned presentation, and place the gallery and offices. To get there, you can be on sloping passages of the turbine hall.

cost of this project is estimated at 215 million pounds. But while the Government was able to get only 50 million, ten of which have already been spent on the harmonization of procedures for planning. Construction is scheduled to finish in 2012, but the gallery director Nicholas Serota Tate (Nicholas Serota) considers a more realistic date for 2013 or 2014, despite the desire of many authorities in conjunction with the opening of a new museum for the London Olympics in 2012.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Sources: guardian.co . uk , bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru