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Exterior view of Tate Modern on the Thames, showing the brick power-station shell and long horizontal profile.

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Tate Modern

2000 · London, England, United Kingdom

Tate Modern exterior view

Exterior view of Tate Modern from the Thames.

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Tate Modern

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2000 · London, England, United Kingdom

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1995 · Tokyo, Japan

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20001995
PlaceLondon, England, United KingdomTokyo, Japan
Place contextLondon, England, United KingdomRepresentative site: Hitachi, Hitachi, Japan
Climate10°C · 14.2h daylight · 11 km/h wind15°C · 13.3h daylight · 5 km/h wind · via Hitachi Station
FocusMuseum11 works in corpus
Architects
  • Jacques Herzog
  • Pierre de Meuron
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Herzog & de Meuron

Notable works

  • Hitachi Station
  • New Museum
  • 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
  • Towada Art Center
Typologies
  • museum
  • adaptive reuse
  • cultural building
  • performance venue
  • museum
  • cultural building
  • gallery
  • university building
  • learning center
  • academic building
  • landscape
Materials
  • brick
  • steel
  • glass
  • glass
  • aluminum
  • steel
  • concrete
  • timber
Carbon signals

Steel, Brick, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Steel
  • Brick
  • Glass

Aluminum, Concrete, and Steel look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Aluminum
  • Concrete
  • Steel
Lower-carbon levers
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Focus on recycled content, lighter assemblies, and careful facade-specification choices.
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible10 of 10 recorded works are publicly accessible
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