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Remembering my London Life - 2007-2010

For many years Bankside Power station was at great risk of being demolished by developers. Many people campaigned for the building to be saved and put forward suggestions for possible new uses. An application to list the building was refused.

In the spring of 1993 the building's fate looked doomed, contractors had already knocked a large hole in the side of the building and had started removing much of the redundant plant.

However, in April 1994 the Tate Gallery announced that Bankside would be the home for the new Tate Modern. In July of the same year, an international competition was launched to select an architect for the new gallery. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were announced as the winning architects in January 1995.

The £134 million conversion to the Tate Modern started in June 1995 with the removal of the remaining redundant plant. The conversion was completed in January 2000. The most obvious external change is the blocky two-story glass extension on one half of the roof. Much of the internal structure remains, including the cavernous main turbine hall, which retains the overhead travelling crane. An electrical substation, taking up the southern third of the building, remained on-site and owned by the French power company EDF Energy.
In 2006, EDF announced that they would be releasing half this holding to the museum.

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Taken on: October 24, 2009

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