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Tate Modern Switch House

First look: inside the Switch House – Tate Modern’s power pyramid

December 25, 2019May 25, 2016 by Editorial Team

With its chainmail brickwork, vast spaces and panoramic views, the Tate’s £260m ziggurat is a mesmerising twist on the existing art gallery

Categories Art, Design, SHELTER Tags architecture, Art, Art and design, art gallery, art museum, Article, Culture, Damien Hirst, Features, galleries, London Tate Modern, Museum, Neo Bankside, new Tate Modern, Nicholas Serota, Oliver Wainwright, pyramid, Switch House, Tate, Tate Modern, Tate Modern expansion, Tate Modern Switch House, UK Culture

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