Property News · September 24, 2016

People who live in glass houses by the Tate Modern shouldn’t throw tantrums | Deborah Orr


To the spoilt brats living opposite the modern art gallery who don’t like its visitors looking into their pad, I say: buy some curtainsA few porcelain sunflower seeds caught in an escalator: this was the nearest Tate Modern had ever got to a problem. Otherwise, the abandoned power station’s transformation into an awesome art-and-tourism behemoth had been a tale of uninterrupted glory and triumph. But then it did the thing of dread – Tate Modern pissed off the neighbours.The new extension, Switch House, itself a giant celebration of the gallery’s unprecedented success, has a public viewing platform. From this platform, spectators are afforded a fantastic insight into life inside the multimillion-pound flats in the glass block across the way. Tenth-floor residents, understandably enough, find this particularly irksome. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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