Brutalist comes from béton brut - raw concrete in french. the extension is finely finished in a type of brick fretwork invoking a sensation of lightness for all it's solid shape. Not at all brutalist in my opinion - though I've only seen photos. :)
London supplies 20% of the tax based on 12.3% of the population. This 20% is a misleading figure – companies such as Tesco record all their profit through their London-Registered office, meaning that profit generated elsewhere in the country is not assigned to the rest of the country. But, even given the 20% figure, this means that the rest of the UK supplies 80% of the tax.
According to the Guardian's own figures, arts spending in London is hugely disproportionate – for example 'the population of Westminster has contributed £14.5m to the arts lottery and received a benefit of £408m; while people in County Durham have given £34m and the area has received just £12m.' (Guardian November 2014). It doesn't stop with the arts – Londoners receive 24 times more investment in public transport infrastructure than the rest of the UK.
There's nothing provincial about wanting to enjoy a fairer distribution of the spoils. Perhaps everyone in London should stop eating all the pie.
LOL, yeah thats what I thought,
But then again, looking on the bright side
will probably be far more interesting than whats on offer.
I still prefer Tate Britain
It is just horrible. Where is the craft? Where is the weight and tension expressed? Unadorned, fearful, frightened nonsense. Too scared to commit to any art, it hides itself in its nakedness. A Corporate building.
Honestly I don't think many people buying these apartments are going to be buying their furniture online the price of a 3 to 4 bed apartment is between £2m and £6.5m.
2 bed apartments rent for about £4k a month, furnished.
If it is sneering (which I'm not sure it is) it is surely at the idea of buying a lifestyle, not a home. In particular buying that lifestyle in an apartment that it almost designed to display it to the world.
I understand the jounralist to mean that they display there interior 'life' (like a catalogue), with very little shelter or softness (bleak) but many look almost comically sterile and under lived in (like a still life).
I thought he was sneering at the fact they might have ordered their furniture online rather than inherited it from their parents or "upcycled" it from a skip.
I imagine if I had a living room that was constantly on view I'd keep it tidy to the point of sterility. I might put notices on the chairs reading "I CARRIED THIS BACK FROM THE SHOP MYSELF" for snooping journos.
There's never been much art in Tate Modern. The cream of the collection used to fir neatly into about half of Tate Britain allowing the exhibition to be refreshed and rotated on a regular basis.
Tate Modern would be a great site for the collection of modern art we could have amassed in the 1930s.
maybe the guardian and/or readers could pick a side/route and arrange for Oliver to scale to the top from the outside. you know, to help him fully attain enlightenment of the buildings structure, form and design. oh, and make sure he has a go-pro strapped to his head.
I love this building, and pretty much everything else they've done, but I work near the Blavatnik building in Oxford, which is a really indifferent bit of architecture.
Predictable - a bit like your arrogant attitude. London get heavily subsidised for them - there's no hate of London there, or the Tate, yes envy perhaps - it would be good to see a fairer distribution of money - that's all.
I certainly think it's striking, but having walked past it a few weeks back I also think it's a rather intimidating thing, as though it had been designed by the Borg Collective.
"The faceted form of the extension is a result of the forces acting on it from all sides, sculpted by its neighbours’ rights to light and the invisible lines of protected views to the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral across the river."
I was there 2 weeks ago, and I loved seeing so many young people taking it all in, granted they may be a little loud, but some of them may just be inspired to come back alone when they are older.
Beautiful and daring building. Nasty piece of writing though...."You can peer into the living rooms of nearby Neo Bankside and observe bleak still lifes of mail-order luxury"
............ the tone of the writing....
A place to see and be seen? Sounds like a lot of building [both in terms of cost and space] for not much art, which I thought was the primary purpose of The Tate.
If the emphasis is on providing a place for people to hang out, the number of people will increase, making The Tate even more overcrowded.
You get the good stuff when you pay to see the special exhibitions.
However, you're kind of right in your assessment of the Tate Modern. Royal Academy (not free), Tate Britain, Barbican (not free), Hayward (not free), Dulwich Picture Gallery (not free) and the national gallery (special exhibitions not free) are better for the quality of the art on offer. Most attract a slightly more serious art loving crowd... along with tourists ticking items off their lists.
Ah. Good. I was wondering where the provincial "I hate/envy London" comments were.... So predictable. Yawn. We get the toys because we work hard, pay for them. Backwaters don't. Sorry.
I can see the allure. It has powerfully expressed geometry, it's made of brick, and it's got a viewing gallery. What's not to like? They've made up for the disappointment of their original gallery - one of the worst venues to view art, anywhere - by giving the tower a twist. But as has been suggested, this is not a useful building, but more a posturing one, to be seen in and from. For those not really interested in galleries.
I like Tate Modern and it looks good....but another£260m of public money for London...then we're going to be subsidising the Garden Bridge, where one isn't needed. I thought these vanity projects had ended. meanwhile a crucial remodelling of a railway junction in Ely has been dropped (cost £19m) and Norfolk doesn't have a single museum with free entry. London sucks the lifeblood out of the country. Must also mention the V&A stealing the RPS photographic collection from Bradford (Northern powerhouse, my arse) - perhaps Matthew d'Ancona (Guardian journalist and Science Museum board group, who made the decision and not one of whom is based in the north) would like to explain - no I'm sure he wouldn't. Ah well, got that off my chest.
Great design. Tate is a brilliant gallery. One which I miss. Yes other arts need funding, and they shouuld be funded as well, not instead of. The Tate brings in a lot of tourism to the capital so that is perhaps why this managed to get the funding. If they had been turned down that does mean that smaller projects would have got the funding. Probably not.
First look: inside the Switch House – Tate Modern's power pyramid
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Brutalist comes from béton brut - raw concrete in french. the extension is finely finished in a type of brick fretwork invoking a sensation of lightness for all it's solid shape. Not at all brutalist in my opinion - though I've only seen photos. :)
Most of Britain's new infrastructure is put up in London, for the benefit of the rich foreigners who own Britain. Perhaps like yourself, Monsieur.
Love it.
London supplies 20% of the tax based on 12.3% of the population. This 20% is a misleading figure – companies such as Tesco record all their profit through their London-Registered office, meaning that profit generated elsewhere in the country is not assigned to the rest of the country. But, even given the 20% figure, this means that the rest of the UK supplies 80% of the tax.
According to the Guardian's own figures, arts spending in London is hugely disproportionate – for example 'the population of Westminster has contributed £14.5m to the arts lottery and received a benefit of £408m; while people in County Durham have given £34m and the area has received just £12m.' (Guardian November 2014). It doesn't stop with the arts – Londoners receive 24 times more investment in public transport infrastructure than the rest of the UK.
There's nothing provincial about wanting to enjoy a fairer distribution of the spoils. Perhaps everyone in London should stop eating all the pie.
I'm unconvinced by the form, but the craftsmanship is evident when you see it. Probably more artful than what is to be placed within.
Poor old London
Wasn't a bad place to live in before the rich stole it away
But let them have it - I have no desire to return to the ruined city of my childhood
LOL, yeah thats what I thought,
But then again, looking on the bright side
will probably be far more interesting than whats on offer.
I still prefer Tate Britain
Yes. Pyramid = illuminati. Wake up sheeple! Ezikiel 3:26 and Amos 4:52
It is just horrible. Where is the craft? Where is the weight and tension expressed? Unadorned, fearful, frightened nonsense. Too scared to commit to any art, it hides itself in its nakedness. A Corporate building.
the time-lapse and these exterior photos are brilliant.
why are people so afraid of new shapes?....certainly worth a visit to London to see it
Honestly I don't think many people buying these apartments are going to be buying their furniture online the price of a 3 to 4 bed apartment is between £2m and £6.5m.
2 bed apartments rent for about £4k a month, furnished.
If it is sneering (which I'm not sure it is) it is surely at the idea of buying a lifestyle, not a home. In particular buying that lifestyle in an apartment that it almost designed to display it to the world.
And you think that that bright shiny thing made of words actually means anything?
I imagine if I had a living room that was constantly on view I'd keep it tidy to the point of sterility. I might put notices on the chairs reading "I CARRIED THIS BACK FROM THE SHOP MYSELF" for snooping journos.
There's never been much art in Tate Modern. The cream of the collection used to fir neatly into about half of Tate Britain allowing the exhibition to be refreshed and rotated on a regular basis.
Tate Modern would be a great site for the collection of modern art we could have amassed in the 1930s.
Inside their homes people can do what they want, cant they?
Wait and see...they call it conceptual art.
at least it's not covered with snot ,yet
http://inhabitat.com/mad-architects-unveil-futuristic-cloud-corridor-skyscrapers-for-los-angeles/
London looks more and more like a battle field of megalomanic absurd buildings.
Ego dysfunctional architecture in all shapes and colours.
No coherence whatsoever !
maybe the guardian and/or readers could pick a side/route and arrange for Oliver to scale to the top from the outside. you know, to help him fully attain enlightenment of the buildings structure, form and design. oh, and make sure he has a go-pro strapped to his head.
goodness ! not a " One Nation Conservative " then ,and all that bollocks ! Further to the Right ? Austria ?
I love this building, and pretty much everything else they've done, but I work near the Blavatnik building in Oxford, which is a really indifferent bit of architecture.
aaahhh the Collective . http://www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/david_critchley/yet_another_triangle.html No mate ,gone are the days ,back then if they had 300million quid they'd give it to tramps or some mischief like that eh ! OK possibly the CLT .
http://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/what-is-a-clt
I rather liked it, a little hint of Ballard and I had early Roxy Music playing in my head.
Predictable - a bit like your arrogant attitude. London get heavily subsidised for them - there's no hate of London there, or the Tate, yes envy perhaps - it would be good to see a fairer distribution of money - that's all.
I certainly think it's striking, but having walked past it a few weeks back I also think it's a rather intimidating thing, as though it had been designed by the Borg Collective.
"The faceted form of the extension is a result of the forces acting on it from all sides, sculpted by its neighbours’ rights to light and the invisible lines of protected views to the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral across the river."
Why don't you stop being so LAZY.
Probably the homes of several Guardian execs and columnists in reality
There are tower blocks in Leicester that would give this a run for it's money.
art for a urinal.
"...not much art, which I thought was the primary purpose of The Tate. "
Fallen at the first.
I love the descriptive accuracy referencing the cold hearted bankster caves of the greedy.
I was there 2 weeks ago, and I loved seeing so many young people taking it all in, granted they may be a little loud, but some of them may just be inspired to come back alone when they are older.
Beautiful and daring building. Nasty piece of writing though...."You can peer into the living rooms of nearby Neo Bankside and observe bleak still lifes of mail-order luxury"
............ the tone of the writing....
A place to see and be seen? Sounds like a lot of building [both in terms of cost and space] for not much art, which I thought was the primary purpose of The Tate.
If the emphasis is on providing a place for people to hang out, the number of people will increase, making The Tate even more overcrowded.
Given the constraints involved, it's a wonder it was ever built in the first place. They made the best of a bad job in my view.
You get the good stuff when you pay to see the special exhibitions.
However, you're kind of right in your assessment of the Tate Modern. Royal Academy (not free), Tate Britain, Barbican (not free), Hayward (not free), Dulwich Picture Gallery (not free) and the national gallery (special exhibitions not free) are better for the quality of the art on offer. Most attract a slightly more serious art loving crowd... along with tourists ticking items off their lists.
Get it through your provincial head. We in London get what we want. We work for it. This is a world city. Suck it up.
Nobody is forcing you to live in a second-rate city or some overlooked town. Move somewhere better.
Yes, quite right - I was inaccurate in my description but knew part of the building was still operational for power supply.
If you remembered to take your meds you may want to double the dosage.
Ah. Good. I was wondering where the provincial "I hate/envy London" comments were.... So predictable. Yawn. We get the toys because we work hard, pay for them. Backwaters don't. Sorry.
Ha Ha!
They built this horrendous, concrete monolith in 2016! Like they learnt nothing from 60s architecture? I despair.
I can see the allure. It has powerfully expressed geometry, it's made of brick, and it's got a viewing gallery. What's not to like? They've made up for the disappointment of their original gallery - one of the worst venues to view art, anywhere - by giving the tower a twist. But as has been suggested, this is not a useful building, but more a posturing one, to be seen in and from. For those not really interested in galleries.
I like Tate Modern and it looks good....but another£260m of public money for London...then we're going to be subsidising the Garden Bridge, where one isn't needed. I thought these vanity projects had ended. meanwhile a crucial remodelling of a railway junction in Ely has been dropped (cost £19m) and Norfolk doesn't have a single museum with free entry. London sucks the lifeblood out of the country. Must also mention the V&A stealing the RPS photographic collection from Bradford (Northern powerhouse, my arse) - perhaps Matthew d'Ancona (Guardian journalist and Science Museum board group, who made the decision and not one of whom is based in the north) would like to explain - no I'm sure he wouldn't. Ah well, got that off my chest.
Great design. Tate is a brilliant gallery. One which I miss. Yes other arts need funding, and they shouuld be funded as well, not instead of. The Tate brings in a lot of tourism to the capital so that is perhaps why this managed to get the funding. If they had been turned down that does mean that smaller projects would have got the funding. Probably not.
I wonder how many Arts Council NPO's would have been kept going and for how long, if all of that cash had been used differently...
Nice - I like it!
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