London's most popular art gallery has unveiled its new $500 million extension.
The building at the Tate Modern is being hailed as a piece of art in itself, but what it's made of may surprise you -- good, old fashioned bricks.
It's being called the most important new cultural building in Britain for nearly 20 years. Its very fabric signals a change from the fashion for glass and steel.
"The brick is like the skin and wraps around the whole building, and knits the old building to the new building," says Tate Modern director Frances Morris. "I think it's going to take a long time to get bored with."
It is the brick buildings of the '60s and '70s that are blamed for bricks going out of fashion. Steel and glass seem to have taken over, but the new building has 336,000 bricks and is very much saying that they are back in fashion.
"There's definitely a renaissance coming on for good brick work," says Pete Croney of Swift Brickwork.
"Here they've put in a completely new structure and draped it in brick," says RIBA Awards chair Philip Gumuchdjian. "Gone back to a material we all love -- possibly the first building material ever invented."
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